ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B00-B09 › B08 Other viral infections... › B08.8
Other specified viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions
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 Other specified viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions
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.
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Mortification
- Sore > throat
- Phlyctenulosis
- Febris, febrile
- Septic > throat
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Phlyctenulosis > cornea
- Virus, viral > infection
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Keratitis > in > exanthema
- Catarrh, catarrhal > fauces
- Disorder > cornea > keratitis
- Gangrene, gangrenous > throat
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > pharynx
- Keratoconjunctivitis > in exanthema
- Lagophthalmos > keratoconjunctivitis
- Infection, infected, infective > throat
- Disorder > cornea > keratoconjunctivitis
- Infection, infected, infective > pharynx
- Opacity, opacities > cornea > inflammatory
- Infection, infected, infective > hypopharynx
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cornea
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > throat
- Keratitis > superficial > with conjunctivitis
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pharynx
- Xerophthalmia > unrelated to vitamin A deficiency
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > skin > with gangrene
- Cotia virus
- Poxvirus NEC
- Fever > aphthous
- Stomatitis > epidemic
- Stomatitis > epizootic
- Aphthae, aphthous > fever
Showing 40 of 47 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B08.0 | Other orthopoxvirus infections | Not billable |
| B08.1 | Molluscum contagiosum | Valid |
| B08.2 | Exanthema subitum [sixth disease] | Not billable |
| B08.3 | Erythema infectiosum [fifth disease] | Valid |
| B08.4 | Enteroviral vesicular stomatitis with exanthem | Valid |
| B08.5 | Enteroviral vesicular pharyngitis | Valid |
| B08.6 | Parapoxvirus infections | Not billable |
| B08.7 | Yatapoxvirus infections | Not billable |