ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A80-A89 › A87 Viral meningitis › A87.2
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
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 Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
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 A87 Viral meningitis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- meningitis due to herpesvirus [herpes simplex] (B00.3)
- meningitis due to measles virus (B05.1)
- meningitis due to mumps virus (B26.1)
- meningitis due to poliomyelitis virus (A80.-)
- meningitis due to zoster (B02.1)
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.
- Myelitis
- Phrenitis
- Arachnitis
- Cephalitis
- Cerebritis
- Ependymitis
- Cerebellitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > brain
- Ventriculitis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Meningomyelitis
- Mesencephalitis
- Myelomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Parencephalitis
- Syringomyelitis
- Fever > cerebral
- Radiculomyelitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Encephalomyelitis
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningocerebritis
- Myeloencephalitis
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Encephalomeningitis
- Meningoencephalitis
- Meningomyeloneuritis
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Encephalomeningomyelitis
- Encephalomyelomeningitis
- Meningoencephalomyelitis
- Poliomeningoencephalitis
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
Showing 40 of 68 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A87.0 | Enteroviral meningitis | Valid |
| A87.1 | Adenoviral meningitis | Valid |
| A87.8 | Other viral meningitis | Valid |
| A87.9 | Viral meningitis, unspecified | Valid |