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A30

Leprosy [Hansen's disease]

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 8 more specific codes instead:

  • A30.0 Indeterminate leprosy
  • A30.1 Tuberculoid leprosy
  • A30.2 Borderline tuberculoid leprosy
  • A30.3 Borderline leprosy
  • A30.4 Borderline lepromatous leprosy
  • A30.5 Lepromatous leprosy
  • A30.8 Other forms of leprosy
  • A30.9 Leprosy, unspecified

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Leprosy [Hansen's disease]

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • sequelae of leprosy (B92)

Includes

  • infection due to Mycobacterium leprae

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.