ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B50-B64 › B56 African trypanosomiasis › B56.9
African trypanosomiasis, unspecified
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 African trypanosomiasis, unspecified
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.
- Myelitis
- Phrenitis
- Arachnitis
- Cephalitis
- Cerebritis
- Ependymitis
- Cerebellitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > brain
- Ventriculitis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Meningomyelitis
- Mesencephalitis
- Myelomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Parencephalitis
- Syringomyelitis
- Fever > cerebral
- Radiculomyelitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Encephalomyelitis
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningocerebritis
- Myeloencephalitis
- Sleeping sickness
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Encephalomeningitis
- Meningoencephalitis
- Meningomyeloneuritis
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Encephalomeningomyelitis
- Encephalomyelomeningitis
- Meningoencephalomyelitis
- Poliomeningoencephalitis
Showing 40 of 82 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B56.0 | Gambiense trypanosomiasis | Valid |
| B56.1 | Rhodesiense trypanosomiasis | Valid |