Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia

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)

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.

Congestive
Pneumonitis
Cold > chest
Lues, luetic
Cold > on lung
Heredosyphilis
Pleuropneumonia
Bronchopneumonia
Cold > bronchial
Bronchopulmonitis
Tracheobronchitis
Bronchopneumonitis
Pneumonia > patchy
Lesion > syphilitic
Pneumonia > diffuse
Pneumonia > lobular
Effusion > bronchial
Bronchitis > croupous
Bronchitis > subacute
Pneumonia > catarrhal
Pneumonia > confluent
Bronchitis > capillary
Bronchitis > exudative
Bronchopleuropneumonia
Irritation > bronchial
Pneumonia > multilobar
Laryngotracheobronchitis
Pneumonia > disseminated
Catarrh, catarrhal > lung
Catarrh, catarrhal > chest
Disease, diseased > venereal
Treponema pallidum infection
Bronchitis > catarrhal > acute
Catarrh, catarrhal > bronchial
Catarrh, catarrhal > pulmonary
Disease, diseased > syphilitic
Syphilis, syphilitic > newborn
Pneumopleurisy, pneumopleuritis
Syphilis, syphilitic > infantum
Syphilis, syphilitic > inherited

Showing 40 of 72 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
A50.01	Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy	Valid
A50.02	Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy	Valid
A50.03	Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis	Valid
A50.05	Early congenital syphilitic rhinitis	Valid
A50.06	Early cutaneous congenital syphilis	Valid
A50.07	Early mucocutaneous congenital syphilis	Valid
A50.08	Early visceral congenital syphilis	Valid
A50.09	Other early congenital syphilis, symptomatic	Valid