C44.01 ICD-10-CM Code: Basal cell carcinoma of skin of lip
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.
- MS-DRG 011 — TRACHEOSTOMY FOR FACE, MOUTH AND NECK DIAGNOSES OR LARYNGECTOMY WITH MCC (MDC PRE)
- MS-DRG 012 — TRACHEOSTOMY FOR FACE, MOUTH AND NECK DIAGNOSES OR LARYNGECTOMY WITH CC (MDC PRE)
- MS-DRG 013 — TRACHEOSTOMY FOR FACE, MOUTH AND NECK DIAGNOSES OR LARYNGECTOMY WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC PRE)
- MS-DRG 606 — MINOR SKIN DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 09)
- MS-DRG 607 — MINOR SKIN DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 09)
A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for C44.01 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Includes
Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.
- malignant neoplasm of sebaceous glands
- malignant neoplasm of sweat glands
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- malignant neoplasm of lip (C00.-)
- Kaposi's sarcoma of skin (C46.0)
- malignant melanoma of skin (C43.-)
- malignant neoplasm of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.2)
- Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to C44.01 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- C44 — Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin
- C44.0 — Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lip
- C44.00 — Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lip
- C44.02 — Squamous cell carcinoma of skin of lip
- C44.09 — Other specified malignant neoplasm of skin of lip
- C44.1 — Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of eyelid, including canthus
- C44.10 — Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of eyelid, including canthus
- C44.101 — Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of unspecified eyelid, including canthus
- C44.102 — Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right eyelid, including canthus
- C44.1021 — Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right upper eyelid, including canthus
Neoplasm Table Sites (2)
Anatomical sites from the official ICD-10-CM Table of Neoplasms that map to this code, with the matching behavior column.
- Neoplasm, neoplastic, lip, skin (commissure) (lower) (upper), basal cell carcinoma — Malignant, Primary
- Neoplasm, neoplastic, skin NOS, lip (lower) (upper), basal cell carcinoma — Malignant, Primary