ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A06 Amebiasis › A06.0
Acute amebic dysentery
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 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Acute amebic dysentery
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 A06 Amebiasis
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
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.
- Pancolitis
- Ameba, amebic
- Colitis > amebic
- Gastroenteropathy
- Entamebic, entamebiasis
- Infestation > Entamoeba
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic
- Infection, infected, infective > Entamoeba
- Dysentery, dysenteric > Entamoeba, entamebic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > rectum
- Infection, infected, infective > Ameba, amebic
- Colitis > amebic
- Amebiasis > acute
- Enteritis > amebic
- Proctitis > amebic
- Amebiasis > intestine
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic > acute
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic > acute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A06.1 | Chronic intestinal amebiasis | Valid |
| A06.2 | Amebic nondysenteric colitis | Valid |
| A06.3 | Ameboma of intestine | Valid |
| A06.4 | Amebic liver abscess | Valid |
| A06.5 | Amebic lung abscess | Valid |
| A06.6 | Amebic brain abscess | Valid |
| A06.7 | Cutaneous amebiasis | Valid |
| A06.8 | Amebic infection of other sites | Not billable |
| A06.9 | Amebiasis, unspecified | Valid |