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B73.01
Onchocerciasis with endophthalmitis
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 Onchocerciasis with endophthalmitis
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 B73 Onchocerciasis
Includes
- onchocerca volvulus infection
- onchocercosis
- river blindness
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
- Blind
- Amaurosis
- Craw-craw
- Loss > sight
- Helminthiasis
- Abscess > helminthic
- Vision, visual > low
- Vision, visual > loss
- Parasitism > specified
- Infestation > Onchocerca
- Irritation > choroid, sympathetic
- Disorder > globe > endophthalmitis
- Microfilaria streptocerca infestation
- Infestation > microfilaria streptocerca
- Low > vision > one eye > other eye blind
- Rupture, ruptured > globe > nontraumatic
- Infection, infected, infective > Onchocerca
- Disease, diseased > parasitic > specified type
- Loss > vision, visual > specified as blindness
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > onchocerciasis
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > diphyllobothriasis
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > specified > cestode NEC
- River blindness
- Robles' disease
- Blindness > river
- Disease, diseased > Robles'
- Endophthalmitis > in > onchocerciasis
- Onchocerciasis, onchocercosis > with > eye disease > endophthalmitis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B73.00 | Onchocerciasis with eye involvement, unspecified | Valid |
| B73.02 | Onchocerciasis with glaucoma | Valid |
| B73.09 | Onchocerciasis with other eye involvement | Valid |