Gonococcal infection

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:

A54.0 Gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract without periurethral or accessory gland abscess (also a header)
A54.1 Gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract with periurethral and accessory gland abscess
A54.2 Gonococcal pelviperitonitis and other gonococcal genitourinary infection (also a header)
A54.3 Gonococcal infection of eye (also a header)
A54.4 Gonococcal infection of musculoskeletal system (also a header)
A54.5 Gonococcal pharyngitis
A54.6 Gonococcal infection of anus and rectum
A54.8 Other gonococcal infections (also a header)
A54.9 Gonococcal infection, 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 Gonococcal infection

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)