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A80.1

Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, imported

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 Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, imported

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 A80 Acute poliomyelitis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • acute flaccid myelitis (G04.82)

Inherited from the A80-A89 section Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • postpolio syndrome (G14)
  • sequelae of poliomyelitis (B91)
  • sequelae of viral encephalitis (B94.1)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
A80.0 Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associated Valid
A80.2 Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, indigenous Valid
A80.3 Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, other and unspecified Not billable
A80.4 Acute nonparalytic poliomyelitis Valid
A80.9 Acute poliomyelitis, unspecified Valid