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A20.8
Other forms of plague
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 forms of plague
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 A20 Plague
Includes
- infection due to Yersinia pestis
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.
- Yersiniosis
- Pest, pestis
- Pasteurellosis
- Febris, febrile > pestis
- Infection, infected, infective > Yersinia > pestis
- Infection, infected, infective > Pasteurella NEC > pestis
- Plague > abortive
- Plague > tonsillar
- Plague > ambulatory
- Plague > pharyngeal
- Plague > asymptomatic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A20.0 | Bubonic plague | Valid |
| A20.1 | Cellulocutaneous plague | Valid |
| A20.2 | Pneumonic plague | Valid |
| A20.3 | Plague meningitis | Valid |
| A20.7 | Septicemic plague | Valid |
| A20.9 | Plague, unspecified | Valid |