ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A65-A69 › A69.2 Lyme disease › A69.20
Lyme disease, unspecified
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 Lyme disease, unspecified
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 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.
- Erythroderma
- Disorder > erythematous
- Lyme disease
- Disease, diseased > Lyme
- Erythema, erythematous > chronicum migrans
- Erythema, erythematous > migrans > chronicum
- Infection, infected, infective > Borrelia bergdorfi
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A69.21 | Meningitis due to Lyme disease | Valid |
| A69.22 | Other neurologic disorders in Lyme disease | Valid |
| A69.23 | Arthritis due to Lyme disease | Valid |
| A69.29 | Other conditions associated with Lyme disease | Valid |