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A05.2

Foodborne Clostridium perfringens [Clostridium welchii] intoxication

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Foodborne Clostridium perfringens [Clostridium welchii] intoxication

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 A05 Other bacterial foodborne intoxications, not elsewhere classified

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Clostridium difficile foodborne intoxication and infection (A04.7-)
  • Escherichia coli infection (A04.0-A04.4)
  • listeriosis (A32.-)
  • salmonella foodborne intoxication and infection (A02.-)
  • toxic effect of noxious foodstuffs (T61-T62)

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.

Showing 40 of 89 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A05.0 Foodborne staphylococcal intoxication Valid
A05.1 Botulism food poisoning Valid
A05.3 Foodborne Vibrio parahaemolyticus intoxication Valid
A05.4 Foodborne Bacillus cereus intoxication Valid
A05.5 Foodborne Vibrio vulnificus intoxication Valid
A05.8 Other specified bacterial foodborne intoxications Valid
A05.9 Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified Valid