ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A54.8 Other gonococcal infections › A54.82
Gonococcal brain abscess
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 brain abscess
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.
- Carbunculus
- Empyema > brain
- Empyema > ventricular
- Abscess > brain > gonococcal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A54.81 | Gonococcal meningitis | 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 |