ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B50-B64 › B60.1 Acanthamebiasis › B60.19
Other acanthamebic disease
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 Other acanthamebic disease
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 B60 Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified
Excludes1 - never coded here
- cryptosporidiosis (A07.2)
- intestinal microsporidiosis (A07.8)
- isosporiasis (A07.3)
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.
- Infection, infected, infective > Acanthamoeba
- Disease, diseased > protozoal > acanthamebiasis
- Acanthamebiasis > other specified
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B60.10 | Acanthamebiasis, unspecified | Valid |
| B60.11 | Meningoencephalitis due to Acanthamoeba (culbertsoni) | Valid |
| B60.12 | Conjunctivitis due to Acanthamoeba | Valid |
| B60.13 | Keratoconjunctivitis due to Acanthamoeba | Valid |