ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A30-A49 › A30 Leprosy [Hansen's disease] › A30.5
Lepromatous leprosy
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 Lepromatous leprosy
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 A30 Leprosy [Hansen's disease]
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.
- Lepra
- Mycobacteriosis
- Hansen's disease
- Disease, diseased > Hansen's
- Mycobacterium, mycobacterial > leprae
- Arthritis, arthritic > due to or associated with > leprosy
- Infection, infected, infective > Mycobacterium, mycobacterial
- Leprosy > LL
- Leprosy > nodular
- Leprosy > lepromatous
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A30.0 | Indeterminate leprosy | Valid |
| A30.1 | Tuberculoid leprosy | Valid |
| A30.2 | Borderline tuberculoid leprosy | Valid |
| A30.3 | Borderline leprosy | Valid |
| A30.4 | Borderline lepromatous leprosy | Valid |
| A30.8 | Other forms of leprosy | Valid |
| A30.9 | Leprosy, unspecified | Valid |