ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54.2 Gonococcal pelviperitonitis and... › A54.21
Gonococcal infection of kidney and ureter
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 Gonococcal infection of kidney and ureter
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.
- Clap
- Blennorrhea
- Nephropathy
- Glomerulitis
- Glomerulopathy
- Klebs' disease
- Bright's disease
- Empyema > ureter
- Glomerulonephritis
- Syndrome > nephritic
- Glomerular > nephritis
- Disease, diseased > Klebs'
- Blennorrhagia, blennorrhagic
- Disease, diseased > Bright's
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Disease, diseased > glomerular
- Nephropathy > with > glomerular lesion
- Infection, infected, infective > ureter
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > kidney
- Disease, diseased > renal > with > glomerular lesion
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > gonorrhea
- Gonorrhea > kidney
- Ureteritis > gonococcal
- Nephritis, nephritic > gonococcal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A54.22 | Gonococcal prostatitis | Valid |
| A54.23 | Gonococcal infection of other male genital organs | Valid |
| A54.24 | Gonococcal female pelvic inflammatory disease | Valid |
| A54.29 | Other gonococcal genitourinary infections | Valid |