ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A04 Other bacterial intestinal infections › A04.7

A04.7

Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2017, and a category header from FY2018.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • A04.71 Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, recurrent
  • A04.72 Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, not specified as recurrent

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile
  2. FY2018 Stopped being billable

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)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A04.0 Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection Valid
A04.1 Enterotoxigenic 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
A04.8 Other specified bacterial intestinal infections Valid
A04.9 Bacterial intestinal infection, unspecified Valid