ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54 Gonococcal infection › A54.5
Gonococcal pharyngitis
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 pharyngitis
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
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Blennorrhea
- Mortification
- Sore > throat
- Septic > throat
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Abscess > gonorrheal
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Neisserian infection NEC
- Catarrh, catarrhal > fauces
- Blennorrhagia, blennorrhagic
- Gangrene, gangrenous > throat
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > pharynx
- Gonorrhea > specified site not listed
- Infection, infected, infective > throat
- Infection, infected, infective > pharynx
- Infection, infected, infective > Neisseria
- Infection, infected, infective > gonococcal
- Infection, infected, infective > hypopharynx
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > throat
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pharynx
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > gonorrhea
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > skin > with gangrene
- Pharyngitis > gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > throat
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > pharynx
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A54.0 | Gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract without periurethral or accessory gland abscess | Not billable |
| A54.1 | Gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract with periurethral and accessory gland abscess | Valid |
| A54.2 | Gonococcal pelviperitonitis and other gonococcal genitourinary infection | Not billable |
| A54.3 | Gonococcal infection of eye | Not billable |
| A54.4 | Gonococcal infection of musculoskeletal system | Not billable |
| A54.6 | Gonococcal infection of anus and rectum | Valid |
| A54.8 | Other gonococcal infections | Not billable |
| A54.9 | Gonococcal infection, unspecified | Valid |