ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54.8 Other gonococcal infections › A54.81
Gonococcal meningitis
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 meningitis
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
- Arachnitis
- Blennorrhea
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Abscess > gonorrheal
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Neisserian infection NEC
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Blennorrhagia, blennorrhagic
- Gonorrhea > specified site not listed
- Infection, infected, infective > Neisseria
- Infection, infected, infective > gonococcal
- Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > arachnoid
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pia mater
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > dura mater
- Infection, infected, infective > brain > membranes
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > gonorrhea
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > membranes of brain or spinal cord
- Meningitis > gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal > meninges, meningitis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A54.82 | Gonococcal brain abscess | Valid |
| A54.83 | Gonococcal heart infection | Valid |
| A54.84 | Gonococcal pneumonia | Valid |
| A54.85 | Gonococcal peritonitis | Valid |
| A54.86 | Gonococcal sepsis | Valid |
| A54.89 | Other gonococcal infections | Valid |