ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A52.7 Other symptomatic late syphilis › A52.78

A52.78

Syphilis of other musculoskeletal tissue

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Syphilis of other musculoskeletal tissue

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.

Showing 40 of 63 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A52.71 Late syphilitic oculopathy Valid
A52.72 Syphilis of lung and bronchus Valid
A52.73 Symptomatic late syphilis of other respiratory organs Valid
A52.74 Syphilis of liver and other viscera Valid
A52.75 Syphilis of kidney and ureter Valid
A52.76 Other genitourinary symptomatic late syphilis Valid
A52.77 Syphilis of bone and joint Valid
A52.79 Other symptomatic late syphilis Valid