ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A00-A09 › A08 Viral and other specified... › A08.4
Viral intestinal infection, unspecified
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 Viral intestinal infection, unspecified
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 A08 Viral and other specified intestinal infections
Excludes1 - never coded here
- influenza with involvement of gastrointestinal tract (J09.X3, J10.2, J11.2)
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
- Gastroenteropathy
- Virus, viral > infection
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > viral
- Dysentery, dysenteric > viral
- Diarrhea, diarrheal > due to > virus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > gastric
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > stomach
- Infection, infected, infective > virus, viral NOS > intestine
- Enteritis > viral
- Flu > intestinal NEC
- Gastritis > viral NEC
- Gastroenteritis > viral NEC
- Dysentery, dysenteric > viral
- Gastroduodenitis > virus, viral
- Enteritis > infectious NOS > due to > virus NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A08.0 | Rotaviral enteritis | Valid |
| A08.1 | Acute gastroenteropathy due to Norwalk agent and other small round viruses | Not billable |
| A08.2 | Adenoviral enteritis | Valid |
| A08.3 | Other viral enteritis | Not billable |
| A08.8 | Other specified intestinal infections | Valid |