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A70

Chlamydia psittaci infections

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Chlamydia psittaci infections

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.

This code

Also known as

  • Ornithosis
  • Parrot fever
  • Psittacosis

Inherited from the A70-A74 section Other diseases caused by chlamydiae (A70-A74)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • sexually transmitted chlamydial diseases (A55-A56)

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.

Showing 40 of 65 index phrases.