ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A30-A49 › A39 Meningococcal infection › A39.0
A39.0
Meningococcal meningitis
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 Meningococcal meningitis
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.
- Node
- Swollen
- Arachnitis
- Tumefaction
- Arachnoiditis
- Spotted fever
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Disease, diseased > meningococcal
- Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > arachnoid
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pia mater
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > dura mater
- Infection, infected, infective > brain > membranes
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > membranes of brain or spinal cord
- Fever > petechial
- Meningitis > Neisseria
- Meningitis > diplococcal
- Meningitis > epidemic NEC
- Meningitis > cerebrospinal
- Meningitis > meningococcal
- Fever > cerebrospinal meningococcal
- Meningococcus, meningococcal > meningitis
- Fever > spotted > cerebrospinal meningitis
Showing 40 of 43 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A39.1 | Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome | Valid |
| A39.2 | Acute meningococcemia | Valid |
| A39.3 | Chronic meningococcemia | Valid |
| A39.4 | Meningococcemia, unspecified | Valid |
| A39.5 | Meningococcal heart disease | Not billable |
| A39.8 | Other meningococcal infections | Not billable |
| A39.9 | Meningococcal infection, unspecified | Valid |