K64. 4 - Residual hemorrhoidal skin tags. ICD-10-CM.
8: Other hypertrophic disorders of the skin.
Anal skin tags, or rectal skin tags, are common and usually harmless growths that hang off the skin around the outside of the anus. They may be mistaken for warts or piles (haemorrhoids).
As the name suggests, perianal skin tags are soft growths that occur around the anus. They are quite common and don't cause harm. They may happen after hemorrhoids heal or cleaning that area too hard.
Skin tags. For removal of skin tags by any method, use codes 11200 and 11201. For the first 15 skin tags removed, use code 11200. For each additional 10 skin tags removed, also report code 11201. For example, if you removed 35 skin tags, then you would submit codes 11200, 11201 and 11201.
Skin tags (acrochordons) are small, noncancerous growths that tend to be the same color as your skin. They often look like a cluster of skin tissue extending out from a tiny stem.
Friction. Doctors accept skin-against-skin friction and skin-against-clothing friction as a common cause for vaginal skin tags. Skin tags can be found in areas of the body where a lot of friction occurs, such as around the neck, under breasts, and in between or just below your buttock folds.
Skin tags appear as small flaps or folds in the skin, and are of the same color as your skin. Hemorrhoids appear as lumps, and are dark blue or purple in color because of the swollen veins underneath. What Causes Them to Appear? Skin tags appear in spots where there is friction caused by skin rubbing together.
After external hemorrhoids heal or the thrombosis/blood clot retreats back into the body, a skin tag may be left behind. The anus is a tightly held area and the skin covering a hemorrhoid tends to remain stretched out after the hemorrhoid is gone. Skin tags are painless, small, and almost “pinched up” pieces of skin.