ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A04.7 Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile › A04.71
A04.71
Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, recurrent
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 2018 to now.
- FY2018 Added to the code set Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, recurrent
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.
- Macrocolon
- Pancolitis
- Gastroenteropathy
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > cecum
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > colon
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > sigmoid
- Colitis > pseudomembranous > recurrent
- Colitis > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Enterocolitis > pseudomembranous > recurrent
- Colitis > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > Clostridium > difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Enterocolitis > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Enterocolitis > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Colitis > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Megacolon > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Colitis > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Megacolon > toxic NEC > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > infectious NOS > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Enterocolitis > necrotizing > due to > Clostridium difficile > recurrent
- Enteritis > infectious NOS > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Enterocolitis > necrotizing > due to > Clostridioides difficile > recurrent
- Infection, infected, infective > Clostridioides > difficile > foodborne > recurrent
- Infection, infected, infective > Clostridium NEC > difficile > foodborne > recurrent
- Infection, infected, infective > Clostridioides > difficile > necrotizing enterocolitis > recurrent
- Infection, infected, infective > Clostridium NEC > difficile > necrotizing enterocolitis > recurrent
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A04.72 | Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, not specified as recurrent | Valid |