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B55

Leishmaniasis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • B55.0 Visceral leishmaniasis
  • B55.1 Cutaneous leishmaniasis
  • B55.2 Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
  • B55.9 Leishmaniasis, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Leishmaniasis

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 B50-B64 section Protozoal diseases (B50-B64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • amebiasis (A06.-)
  • other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)