Amebic infection of other sites

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 3 more specific codes instead:

A06.81 Amebic cystitis
A06.82 Other amebic genitourinary infections
A06.89 Other amebic infections

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Amebic infection of other sites

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

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
A06.6	Amebic brain abscess	Valid
A06.7	Cutaneous amebiasis	Valid
A06.9	Amebiasis, unspecified	Valid