ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A04.7 Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile › A04.72

A04.72

Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, not specified as recurrent

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2018 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2018 to now.

  1. FY2018 Added to the code set Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, not specified as 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A04.71 Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile, recurrent Valid