ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A15-A19 › A15 Respiratory tuberculosis › A15.6
Tuberculous pleurisy
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 Tuberculous pleurisy
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 the A15-A19 section Tuberculosis (A15-A19)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital tuberculosis (P37.0)
- nonspecific reaction to test for tuberculosis without active tuberculosis (R76.1-)
- pneumoconiosis associated with tuberculosis, any type in A15 (J65)
- positive PPD (R76.11)
- positive tuberculin skin test without active tuberculosis (R76.11)
- sequelae of tuberculosis (B90.-)
- silicotuberculosis (J65)
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, for associated cachexia (E88.A)
Includes
- infections due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis
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.
- Pleurorrhea
- Pleuritis sicca
- Pneumopyothorax
- Effusion > chest
- Hemopneumothorax
- Hydrops > pleura
- Dropsy, dropsical
- Exudate > pleural
- Pleurisy > septic
- Pleurisy > serous
- Pneumohydrothorax
- Pleurisy > encysted
- Pleurisy > purulent
- Retraction > pleura
- Pleurisy > exudative
- Hydropneumohemothorax
- Pleurisy > hemorrhagic
- Pleurisy > suppurative
- Hydrohematopneumothorax
- Pleurisy > seropurulent
- Pleurisy > serofibrinous
- Concato's disease > pleural
- Effusion > thorax, thoracic
- Pleurisy > with > tuberculosis
- Disease, diseased > Concato's > pleural
- Pleurisy > fibrinopurulent, fibropurulent
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pleura
- Empyema > tuberculous
- Pleurisy > tuberculous
- Pyothorax > tuberculous NEC
- Hemothorax > tuberculous NEC
- Hydrothorax > tuberculous NEC
- Pyopneumothorax > tuberculous NEC
- Hydropneumothorax > tuberculous NEC
- Pleurisy > with > effusion > tuberculous
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > empyema
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > pyothorax
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > hemothorax
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > hydrothorax
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > bronchopleural
Showing 40 of 46 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A15.0 | Tuberculosis of lung | Valid |
| A15.4 | Tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes | Valid |
| A15.5 | Tuberculosis of larynx, trachea and bronchus | Valid |
| A15.7 | Primary respiratory tuberculosis | Valid |
| A15.8 | Other respiratory tuberculosis | Valid |
| A15.9 | Respiratory tuberculosis unspecified | Valid |