Congenital syphilis

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 9 more specific codes instead:

A50.0 Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic (also a header)
A50.1 Early congenital syphilis, latent
A50.2 Early congenital syphilis, unspecified
A50.3 Late congenital syphilitic oculopathy (also a header)
A50.4 Late congenital neurosyphilis [juvenile neurosyphilis] (also a header)
A50.5 Other late congenital syphilis, symptomatic (also a header)
A50.6 Late congenital syphilis, latent
A50.7 Late congenital syphilis, unspecified
A50.9 Congenital syphilis, unspecified

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Congenital syphilis

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 the A50-A64 section Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

nonspecific and nongonococcal urethritis (N34.1)
Reiter's disease (M02.3-)

Excludes2 - not included here

human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)