C44.7
Header — not billableOther and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hip
The ICD-10 code for other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hip is C44.7.
C44.7 is a non-billable header code. It groups related conditions but cannot be used on its own for reimbursement — select one of the 4 more specific codes below.
Documentation support
General coding-documentation guidance — not a substitute for payer-specific requirements or professional coding judgment.
- •This is a non-billable header code. Documentation must support a more specific child code before this diagnosis can be reported on a claim.
- •As a general rule, code to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation in the medical record.
Child codes under C44.7
- C44.70Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hipnon-billable header
- C44.71Basal cell carcinoma of skin of lower limb, including hipnon-billable header
- C44.72Squamous cell carcinoma of skin of lower limb, including hipnon-billable header
- C44.79Other specified malignant neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hipnon-billable header
Related codes in this category
- C44.0Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lipnon-billable header
- C44.1Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of eyelid, including canthusnon-billable header
- C44.2Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of ear and external auricular canalnon-billable header
- C44.3Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of other and unspecified parts of facenon-billable header
- C44.4Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of scalp and necknon-billable header
- C44.5Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of trunknon-billable header
- C44.6Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of upper limb, including shouldernon-billable header
- C44.8Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of skinnon-billable header
- C44.9Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin, unspecifiednon-billable header
- C44.7Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hipnon-billable header