ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54.4 Gonococcal infection of... › A54.42
Gonococcal arthritis
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 arthritis
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
- Arthropyosis
- Pyoarthrosis
- Septic > joint
- Abscess > joint
- Abscess > gonorrheal
- Pyemia, pyemic > joint
- Neisserian infection NEC
- Pyarthritis, pyarthrosis
- Blennorrhagia, blennorrhagic
- Arthritis, arthritic > septic
- Arthritis, arthritic > purulent
- Suppuration, suppurative > joint
- Arthritis, arthritic > suppurative
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > infection
- Gonorrhea > specified site not listed
- Disease, diseased > joint > suppurative
- Infection, infected, infective > Neisseria
- Polyarthritis, polyarthropathy > infective
- Infection, infected, infective > gonococcal
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > coliform bacilli
- Arthritis, arthritic > infectious or infective
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > gonorrhea
- Hydrarthrosis > gonococcal
- Periarthritis > gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > joint
- Arthritis, arthritic > gonococcal
- Arthritis, arthritic > blennorrhagic
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > musculoskeletal > arthritis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A54.40 | Gonococcal infection of musculoskeletal system, unspecified | Valid |
| A54.41 | Gonococcal spondylopathy | Valid |
| A54.43 | Gonococcal osteomyelitis | Valid |
| A54.49 | Gonococcal infection of other musculoskeletal tissue | Valid |