ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B35-B49 › B37 Candidiasis › B37.5
Candidal meningitis
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 Candidal meningitis
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 B37 Candidiasis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- neonatal candidiasis (P37.5)
Includes
- candidosis
- moniliasis
Inherited from the B35-B49 section Mycoses (B35-B49)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to organic dust (J67.-)
- mycosis fungoides (C84.0-)
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.
- Thrush
- Arachnitis
- Candidosis
- Moniliasis
- Oidiomycosis
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Yeast infection
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Infestation > Monilia
- Parasitism > specified
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Oidium albicans infection
- Infection, infected, infective > yeast
- Infection, infected, infective > Candida
- Infection, infected, infective > Monilia
- Disease, diseased > parasitic > specified type
- Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
- Infection, infected, infective > Saccharomyces
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > arachnoid
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pia mater
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > dura mater
- Infection, infected, infective > brain > membranes
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain > membrane
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > diphyllobothriasis
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > specified > cestode NEC
Showing 40 of 44 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B37.0 | Candidal stomatitis | Valid |
| B37.1 | Pulmonary candidiasis | Valid |
| B37.2 | Candidiasis of skin and nail | Valid |
| B37.3 | Candidiasis of vulva and vagina | Not billable |
| B37.4 | Candidiasis of other urogenital sites | Not billable |
| B37.6 | Candidal endocarditis | Valid |
| B37.7 | Candidal sepsis | Valid |
| B37.8 | Candidiasis of other sites | Not billable |
| B37.9 | Candidiasis, unspecified | Valid |