ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A06 Amebiasis › A06.6
Amebic brain abscess
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 Amebic brain abscess
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.
- Carbunculus
- Ameba, amebic
- Empyema > brain
- Colitis > amebic
- Hepatitis > amebic
- Abscess > entamebic
- Abscess > pulmonary
- Amebiasis > hepatic
- Empyema > ventricular
- Entamebic, entamebiasis
- Amebiasis > with abscess
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic
- Suppuration, suppurative > lung
- Enteritis > amebic > with abscess
- Amebiasis > chronic > with abscess
- Infection, infected, infective > Entamoeba
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic > with abscess
- Enteritis > amebic > chronic > with abscess
- Dysentery, dysenteric > Entamoeba, entamebic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic > with abscess
- Infection, infected, infective > Ameba, amebic
- Disease, diseased > liver > end stage > due to hepatitis
- Abscess > amebic > brain
- Abscess > brain > amebic
- Abscess > lung > amebic > with > brain abscess
- Abscess > liver > amebic > with > brain abscess
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A06.0 | Acute amebic dysentery | Valid |
| 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 |
| A06.7 | Cutaneous amebiasis | Valid |
| A06.8 | Amebic infection of other sites | Not billable |
| A06.9 | Amebiasis, unspecified | Valid |