ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A30-A49 › A40 Streptococcal sepsis › A40.8
Other streptococcal sepsis
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 streptococcal sepsis
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 A40 Streptococcal sepsis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- neonatal (P36.0-P36.1)
- puerperal sepsis (O85)
- sepsis due to Streptococcus, group D (A41.81)
Code first
- , if applicable, postprocedural sepsis (T81.44-)
- sepsis due to central venous catheter (T80.211-)
- streptococcal sepsis during labor (O75.3)
- streptococcal sepsis following abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O03.37, O03.87, O04.87, O07.37, O08.82)
- streptococcal sepsis following immunization (T88.0-)
- streptococcal sepsis following infusion, transfusion or therapeutic injection (T80.22-, T80.29-)
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.
- Bacterium, bacteria, bacterial > in blood
- Sepsis > Streptococcus, streptococcal > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A40.0 | Sepsis due to streptococcus, group A | Valid |
| A40.1 | Sepsis due to streptococcus, group B | Valid |
| A40.3 | Sepsis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae | Valid |
| A40.9 | Streptococcal sepsis, unspecified | Valid |