Measles with other complications

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

B05.81 Measles keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis
B05.89 Other measles complications

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Measles with other complications

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 B05 Measles

Excludes1 - never coded here

subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)

Includes

morbilli

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
B05.0	Measles complicated by encephalitis	Valid
B05.1	Measles complicated by meningitis	Valid
B05.2	Measles complicated by pneumonia	Valid
B05.3	Measles complicated by otitis media	Valid
B05.4	Measles with intestinal complications	Valid
B05.9	Measles without complication	Valid