Initial lesions of yaws

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Initial lesions of yaws

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 A66 Yaws

Includes

bouba
frambesia (tropica)
pian

Inherited from the A65-A69 section Other spirochetal diseases (A65-A69)

Excludes2 - not included here

leptospirosis (A27.-)
syphilis (A50-A53)

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.

Pian
Bouba
Parangi
Breda's disease
Charlouis' disease
Frambesia, frambesial
Disease, diseased > Breda's
Disease, diseased > Charlouis
Treponematosis > due to > T. pertenue
Mother yaw
Yaws > mother
Chancre > yaws
Yaws > chancre
Chancre > of > yaws
Yaws > initial lesions
Lesion > primary > yaws
Frambesia, frambesial > primary
Frambesia, frambesial > initial lesion or ulcer
Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > frambesial, initial

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
A66.1	Multiple papillomata and wet crab yaws	Valid
A66.2	Other early skin lesions of yaws	Valid
A66.3	Hyperkeratosis of yaws	Valid
A66.4	Gummata and ulcers of yaws	Valid
A66.5	Gangosa	Valid
A66.6	Bone and joint lesions of yaws	Valid
A66.7	Other manifestations of yaws	Valid
A66.8	Latent yaws	Valid
A66.9	Yaws, unspecified	Valid