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A06

Amebiasis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:

  • A06.0 Acute amebic dysentery
  • A06.1 Chronic intestinal amebiasis
  • A06.2 Amebic nondysenteric colitis
  • A06.3 Ameboma of intestine
  • A06.4 Amebic liver abscess
  • A06.5 Amebic lung abscess
  • A06.6 Amebic brain abscess
  • A06.7 Cutaneous amebiasis
  • A06.8 Amebic infection of other sites (also a header)
  • A06.9 Amebiasis, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Amebiasis

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • acanthamebiasis (B60.1-)
  • Naegleriasis (B60.2)

Includes

  • infection due to Entamoeba histolytica