ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B50-B64 › B56 African trypanosomiasis › B56.0
Gambiense trypanosomiasis
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 Gambiense trypanosomiasis
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.
- Sleeping sickness
- Sickness > sleeping > Gambian
- Sickness > sleeping > West African
- African > trypanosomiasis > gambian
- Trypanosomiasis > gambiensis, Gambian
- Trypanosomiasis > by Trypanosoma > brucei gambiense
- Sickness > sleeping > by Trypanosoma > brucei > gambiense
- Trypanosomiasis > African > by Trypanosoma brucei > gambiense
- Infection, infected, infective > Trypanosoma > brucei > gambiense
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B56.1 | Rhodesiense trypanosomiasis | Valid |
| B56.9 | African trypanosomiasis, unspecified | Valid |