ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54 Gonococcal infection › A54.6
Gonococcal infection of anus and rectum
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 anus and rectum
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
- Abscess > gonorrheal
- Neisserian infection NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > rectum
- Blennorrhagia, blennorrhagic
- Gonorrhea > specified site not listed
- Infection, infected, infective > Neisseria
- Infection, infected, infective > gonococcal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > rectum
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > gonorrhea
- Proctitis > gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > anus
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > rectum
- Stricture > rectum > gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > proctitis
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 |
| A54.5 | Gonococcal pharyngitis | Valid |
| A54.8 | Other gonococcal infections | Not billable |
| A54.9 | Gonococcal infection, unspecified | Valid |