L02.232 ICD-10-CM Code: Carbuncle of back [any part, except buttock and flank]
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 602 — CELLULITIS WITH MCC (MDC 09)
- MS-DRG 603 — CELLULITIS 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 L02.232 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- non-newborn omphalitis (L08.82)
- omphalitis of newborn (P38.-)
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- abscess of breast (N61.1)
- abscess of buttocks (L02.31)
- abscess of female external genital organs (N76.4)
- abscess of male external genital organs (N48.2, N49.-)
- abscess of hip (L02.4)
- abscess of anus and rectal regions (K61.-)
- abscess of female genital organs (external) (N76.4)
- abscess of male genital organs (external) (N48.2, N49.-)
- hordeolum (H00.0)
- infective dermatitis (L30.3)
- local infections of skin classified in Chapter 1
- lupus panniculitis (L93.2)
- panniculitis NOS (M79.3)
- panniculitis of neck and back (M54.0-)
- Perlèche NOS (K13.0)
- Perlèche due to candidiasis (B37.0)
- Perlèche due to riboflavin deficiency (E53.0)
- pyogenic granuloma (L98.0)
- relapsing panniculitis Weber-Christian
- viral warts (B07.-)
- zoster (B02.-)
Use Additional Code
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
- Use additional code to identify organism (B95-B96)
- Use additional code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to L02.232 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- L02.226 — Furuncle of umbilicus
- L02.227 — Furuncle of flank
- L02.229 — Furuncle of trunk, unspecified
- L02.23 — Carbuncle of trunk
- L02.231 — Carbuncle of abdominal wall
- L02.233 — Carbuncle of chest wall
- L02.234 — Carbuncle of groin
- L02.235 — Carbuncle of perineum
- L02.236 — Carbuncle of umbilicus
- L02.237 — Carbuncle of flank
Indexed Clinical Terms (2)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Carbuncle, back (any part except buttock and flank)
- Carbuncle, trunk, back