ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A30-A49 › A41.5 Sepsis due to other Gram-negative organisms › A41.51
Sepsis due to Escherichia coli [E. coli]
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 Sepsis due to Escherichia coli [E. coli]
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 A41 Other sepsis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- bacteremia NOS (R78.81)
- neonatal (P36.-)
- puerperal sepsis (O85)
- streptococcal sepsis (A40.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- sepsis (due to) (in) actinomycotic (A42.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) anthrax (A22.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) candidal (B37.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) Erysipelothrix (A26.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) extraintestinal yersiniosis (A28.2)
- sepsis (due to) (in) gonococcal (A54.86)
- sepsis (due to) (in) herpesviral (B00.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) listerial (A32.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) melioidosis (A24.1)
- sepsis (due to) (in) meningococcal (A39.2-A39.4)
- sepsis (due to) (in) plague (A20.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) tularemia (A21.7)
- toxic shock syndrome (A48.3)
Code first
- , if applicable, postprocedural sepsis (T81.44-)
- sepsis due to central venous catheter (T80.211-)
- sepsis during labor (O75.3)
- sepsis following abortion, ectopic or molar pregnancy (O03.37, O03.87, O04.87, O07.37, O08.82)
- sepsis following immunization (T88.0-)
- 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.
- Colibacillosis > generalized
- Bacterium, bacteria, bacterial > in blood
- Sepsis > Escherichia coli
- Colibacillosis > generalized
- Infection, infected, infective > Escherichia coli NEC > generalized
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A41.50 | Gram-negative sepsis, unspecified | Valid |
| A41.52 | Sepsis due to Pseudomonas | Valid |
| A41.53 | Sepsis due to Serratia | Valid |
| A41.54 | Sepsis due to Acinetobacter baumannii | Valid |
| A41.59 | Other Gram-negative sepsis | Valid |