ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A30-A49 › A48 Other bacterial diseases, not... › A48.8
Other specified bacterial diseases
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 specified bacterial diseases
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 A48 Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified
Excludes1 - never coded here
- actinomycetoma (B47.1)
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.
- Arachnitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- 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
- Lepothrix
- Rhinoscleroma
- Scleroma nasi
- Dermatophilosis
- Streptotrichosis
- Trichosis axillaris
- Trichomycosis > axillaris
- Meningitis > in > bacterial disease NEC
- Disease, diseased > bacterial > specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective > bacterial NOS > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A48.0 | Gas gangrene | Valid |
| A48.1 | Legionnaires' disease | Valid |
| A48.2 | Nonpneumonic Legionnaires' disease [Pontiac fever] | Valid |
| A48.3 | Toxic shock syndrome | Valid |
| A48.4 | Brazilian purpuric fever | Valid |
| A48.5 | Other specified botulism | Not billable |