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A48

Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:

  • A48.0 Gas gangrene
  • A48.1 Legionnaires' disease
  • A48.2 Nonpneumonic Legionnaires' disease [Pontiac fever]
  • A48.3 Toxic shock syndrome
  • A48.4 Brazilian purpuric fever
  • A48.5 Other specified botulism (also a header)
  • A48.8 Other specified bacterial diseases

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • actinomycetoma (B47.1)