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A54.23

Gonococcal infection of other male genital organs

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 Gonococcal infection of other male genital organs

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A54.21 Gonococcal infection of kidney and ureter Valid
A54.22 Gonococcal prostatitis Valid
A54.24 Gonococcal female pelvic inflammatory disease Valid
A54.29 Other gonococcal genitourinary infections Valid