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B57.3

Chagas' disease (chronic) with digestive system involvement

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:

  • B57.30 Chagas' disease with digestive system involvement, unspecified
  • B57.31 Megaesophagus in Chagas' disease
  • B57.32 Megacolon in Chagas' disease
  • B57.39 Other digestive system involvement in Chagas' disease

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 Chagas' disease (chronic) with digestive system involvement

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 B57 Chagas' disease

Includes

  • American trypanosomiasis
  • infection due to Trypanosoma cruzi

Inherited from the B50-B64 section Protozoal diseases (B50-B64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

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

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
B57.0 Acute Chagas' disease with heart involvement Valid
B57.1 Acute Chagas' disease without heart involvement Valid
B57.2 Chagas' disease (chronic) with heart involvement Valid
B57.4 Chagas' disease (chronic) with nervous system involvement Not billable
B57.5 Chagas' disease (chronic) with other organ involvement Valid