Q82.8
Other specified congenital malformations of skin
Q82.8 (also written Q828) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other specified congenital malformations of skin. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 9 codes in category Q82 (Other congenital malformations of skin). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 54 entries. Its coding notes include 5 Excludes1 entries and 2 Excludes2 entries.
Guidelines tip
From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.
Chapter 17 codes can be used for life. Manifestations that are an inherent part of a specifically coded anomaly are not coded separately. A corrected malformation is reported with a personal history code.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
- Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (Q79.6-)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
- disorders of pyrophosphate metabolism (E83.82-)
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
- inborn errors of metabolism (E70-E88)
Care settings
How CMS programs treat this code. These are CMS claim edits and list entries, not coverage or eligibility rules.
Home Health Primary
Accepted as the primary (principal) diagnosis on a home health claim. The Home Health Grouper assigns it to the MMTA - Other clinical group.
Source: CMS Home Health Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective October 1, 2026Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
- Abnormal palmar creases
- Accessory skin tags
- Benign familial pemphigus [Hailey-Hailey]
- Congenital poikiloderma
- Cutis laxa (hyperelastica)
- Dermatoglyphic anomalies
- Inherited keratosis palmaris et plantaris
- Keratosis follicularis [Darier-White]
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
- Codes from this chapter are not for use on maternal records
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 54 entries
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities, palmar creases
- Acanthosis (acquired) (nigricans), benign
- Acanthosis (acquired) (nigricans), congenital
- Accessory (congenital), skin tags
- Angiomatosis
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type), dermatoglyphic
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type), pigmentation, congenital
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type), simian crease
- Bloom (-Machacek)(-Torre) syndrome
- Brugsch's syndrome
- Cutis, hyperelastica
- Cutis, verticis gyrata
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- Darier (-White) disease (congenital)
- Dermatolysis (exfoliativa) (congenital)
- Dermatomegaly NEC
- Disease, diseased, Naegeli's
- Dyskeratosis, congenital
- Dysplasia, ectodermal (anhidrotic) (congenital) (hereditary), hydrotic
- Elastic skin
- Elastoma (juvenile)
- Gyrate scalp
- Hailey-Hailey disease
- Hyperkeratosis, follicularis
- Hypoplasia, hypoplastic, focal dermal
- Hypoplasia, hypoplastic, skin
- Ichthyosis (congenital), palmaris and plantaris
- India rubber skin
- Keratoderma, keratodermia (congenital) (palmaris et plantaris) (symmetrical)
- Keratoma, palmaris and plantaris hereditarium
- Keratosis, follicularis
- Keratosis, follicularis, congenita
- Keratosis, follicularis, spinulosa (decalvans)
- Keratosis, palmaris et plantaris (inherited) (symmetrical)
- Keratosis, vegetans
- Lax, laxity, skin (acquired), congenital
- Lichen, congenital
- Lichen, pilaris
- Melanocytosis, neurocutaneous
- Mibelli's disease (porokeratosis)
- Naegeli's, disease
- Pachydermatocele (congenital)
- Particolored infant
- Pemphigus, benign familial (chronic)
- Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly), lids, congenital
- Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly), scrotum, congenital
- Poikiloderma, congenital
- Porokeratosis
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Rothmund (-Thomson) syndrome
- Siemens' syndrome (ectodermal dysplasia)
- Syndrome, telangiectasic-pigmentation-cataract
- Tag (hypertrophied skin) (infected), skin, accessory (congenital)
- Tag (hypertrophied skin) (infected), skin, congenital
- Tylosis (acquired), palmaris et plantaris (congenital) (inherited)