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B08.79

Other yatapoxvirus 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 2010 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. FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Other yatapoxvirus 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.

Inherited from B08 Other viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions, not elsewhere classified

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • vesicular stomatitis virus disease (A93.8)

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
B08.70 Yatapoxvirus infection, unspecified Valid
B08.71 Tanapox virus disease Valid
B08.72 Yaba pox virus disease Valid