Cysticercosis of central nervous system

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Cysticercosis of central nervous system

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 B69 Cysticercosis

Includes

cysticerciasis infection due to larval form of Taenia solium

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.

Worm
Seizure
Comatose
Taeniasis
Convulsive
Paramnesia
Convulsions
Unconscious
Helminthiasis
Loss > memory
Pseudotetanus
Lafora disease
Fit > epileptic
Coma > epileptic
Lack of > memory
Morbus > caducus
Cyst > Cysticercus
Disorder > seizure
Postsurgery status
Seizure > disorder
State > convulsive
Stroke > epileptic
Morbus > comitialis
Seizure > epileptic
Abscess > helminthic
Disturbance > memory
Seizure > convulsive
Syndrome > epileptic
Disorder > convulsive
Parasitism > specified
Convulsions > epileptic
Attack, attacks > epileptic
Status > absence, epileptic
Fugue > postictal in epilepsy
Taenia > solium > larval form
Amnesia > postictal in epilepsy
Disease, diseased > Lafora body
Status > epileptic, epilepticus
Memory disturbance, lack or loss
Cysticercus cellulose infestation

Showing 40 of 63 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
B69.1	Cysticercosis of eye	Valid
B69.8	Cysticercosis of other sites	Not billable
B69.9	Cysticercosis, unspecified	Valid