ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B35-B49 › B38 Coccidioidomycosis › B38.4
Coccidioidomycosis 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 Coccidioidomycosis 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 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.
- Arachnitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Coccidioidosis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Disease, diseased > California
- Disease, diseased > coccidioidal
- Infection, infected, infective > Coccidioides
- Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
- 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
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > membranes of brain or spinal cord
- Coccidioidomycosis > meninges
- Granuloma > coccidioidal > meninges
- Meningitis > in > coccidioidomycosis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B38.0 | Acute pulmonary coccidioidomycosis | Valid |
| B38.1 | Chronic pulmonary coccidioidomycosis | Valid |
| B38.2 | Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis, unspecified | Valid |
| B38.3 | Cutaneous coccidioidomycosis | Valid |
| B38.7 | Disseminated coccidioidomycosis | Valid |
| B38.8 | Other forms of coccidioidomycosis | Not billable |
| B38.9 | Coccidioidomycosis, unspecified | Valid |