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A39.1
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
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 Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
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.
- Disease, diseased > meningococcal
- Bacterium, bacteria, bacterial > in blood
- Waterhouse
- Syndrome > Waterhouse
- Syndrome > adrenal > hemorrhage
- Syndrome > adrenal > meningococcic
- Syndrome > Friderichsen-Waterhouse
- Sepsis > adrenal hemorrhage syndrome
- Syndrome > septicemic adrenal hemorrhage
- Apoplexia, apoplexy, apoplectic > adrenal
- Disease, diseased > Waterhouse-Friderichsen
- Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome or disease
- Adrenalitis, adrenitis > meningococcal, hemorrhagic
- Meningococcus, meningococcal > adrenalitis, hemorrhagic
- Infection, infected, infective > meningococcal > adrenals
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A39.0 | Meningococcal meningitis | 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 |