ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A04 Other bacterial intestinal infections › A04.1
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from A04 Other bacterial intestinal infections
Excludes1 - never coded here
- bacterial foodborne intoxications, NEC (A05.-)
- tuberculous enteritis (A18.32)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Pancolitis
- Gastroenteropathy
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > due to > Escherichia coli > enterotoxigenic
- Enteritis > infectious NOS > due to > Escherichia coli > enterotoxigenic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A04.0 | Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection | Valid |
| A04.2 | Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli infection | Valid |
| A04.3 | Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection | Valid |
| A04.4 | Other intestinal Escherichia coli infections | Valid |
| A04.5 | Campylobacter enteritis | Valid |
| A04.6 | Enteritis due to Yersinia enterocolitica | Valid |
| A04.7 | Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile | Not billable |
| A04.8 | Other specified bacterial intestinal infections | Valid |
| A04.9 | Bacterial intestinal infection, unspecified | Valid |