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B55.0
Visceral leishmaniasis
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 Visceral 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.-)
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.
- Febris, febrile
- Parasitism > specified
- Infestation > Leishmania
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Infection, infected, infective > Leishmania
- Disease, diseased > protozoal > leishmaniasis
- Disease, diseased > parasitic > specified type
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > diphyllobothriasis
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > specified > cestode NEC
- Ponos
- Kala-azar
- Assam fever
- Dumdum fever
- Burdwan fever
- Fever > Assam
- Sahib disease
- Fever > Burdwan
- Sirkari's disease
- Sudanese kala-azar
- Leishmaniasis > visceral
- Leishmaniasis > infantile
- Mediterranean > kala-azar
- Disease, diseased > Sirkari's
- Leishmaniasis > Mediterranean
- Mediterranean > leishmaniasis
- Dysentery, dysenteric > leishmanial
- Leishmanoid, dermal > post-kala-azar
- Leishmaniasis > dermal > post-kala-azar
- Infection, infected, infective > Leishmania > chagasi
- Infection, infected, infective > Leishmania > donovani
- Infection, infected, infective > Leishmania > infantum
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B55.1 | Cutaneous leishmaniasis | Valid |
| B55.2 | Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis | Valid |
| B55.9 | Leishmaniasis, unspecified | Valid |