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B55.1

Cutaneous leishmaniasis

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Cutaneous 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.

Showing 40 of 42 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
B55.0 Visceral leishmaniasis Valid
B55.2 Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis Valid
B55.9 Leishmaniasis, unspecified Valid