ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A06.8 Amebic infection of other sites › A06.89
Other amebic infections
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 Other amebic infections
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.
- Omentitis
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Epiploitis
- Pancolitis
- Carbunculus
- Ameba, amebic
- Mortification
- Paratyphilitis
- Colitis > amebic
- Periappendicitis
- Enteroperitonitis
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Abscess > entamebic
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Entamebic, entamebiasis
- Infestation > Entamoeba
- Irritation > peritoneum
- Amebiasis > with abscess
- Abscess > intra-abdominal
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic
- Rupture, ruptured > appendix
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic
- Enteritis > amebic > with abscess
- Amebiasis > chronic > with abscess
- Infection, infected, infective > Entamoeba
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > amebic > with abscess
- Enteritis > amebic > chronic > with abscess
- Infection, infected, infective > peritoneal
- Dysentery, dysenteric > Entamoeba, entamebic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cecum
- Dysentery, dysenteric > amebic > with abscess
- Infection, infected, infective > Ameba, amebic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > appendix
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > peritoneum
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retrocecal
- Abscess > peritoneum, peritoneal > with appendicitis
Showing 40 of 52 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A06.81 | Amebic cystitis | Valid |
| A06.82 | Other amebic genitourinary infections | Valid |