ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B50-B64 › B52 Plasmodium malariae malaria › B52.9
Plasmodium malariae malaria without complication
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 Plasmodium malariae malaria without complication
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 B52 Plasmodium malariae malaria
Excludes1 - never coded here
- Plasmodium falciparum (B50.-)
- Plasmodium vivax (B51.-)
Includes
- mixed infections of Plasmodium malariae with other Plasmodium species, except Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax
Inherited from the B50-B64 section Protozoal diseases (B50-B64)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- amebiasis (A06.-)
- other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)
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.
- Ague
- Myelitis
- Paludism
- Dumb ague
- Phrenitis
- Cephalitis
- Cerebritis
- Congestive
- Marsh fever
- Cerebellitis
- Neuromyalgia
- Splenectasis
- Typhomalaria
- Fever > brain
- Fever > marsh
- Megalosplenia
- Ventriculitis
- Anemia > marsh
- Cameroon fever
- Corsican fever
- Fever > jungle
- Febris, febrile
- Fever > paludal
- Mesencephalitis
- Parencephalitis
- Syringomyelitis
- Anemia > paludal
- Cachexia > marsh
- Fever > Cameroon
- Fever > cerebral
- Fever > Corsican
- Musculoneuralgia
- Pain > nerve NEC
- Perineuritis NEC
- Radiculomyelitis
- Anemia > malarial
- Encephalomyelitis
- Fever > miasmatic
- Fever > remittent
- Myeloencephalitis
Showing 40 of 76 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B52.0 | Plasmodium malariae malaria with nephropathy | Valid |
| B52.8 | Plasmodium malariae malaria with other complications | Valid |