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B74

Filariasis

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • B74.0 Filariasis due to Wuchereria bancrofti
  • B74.1 Filariasis due to Brugia malayi
  • B74.2 Filariasis due to Brugia timori
  • B74.3 Loiasis
  • B74.4 Mansonelliasis
  • B74.8 Other filariases
  • B74.9 Filariasis, unspecified

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 Filariasis

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • onchocerciasis (B73)
  • tropical (pulmonary) eosinophilia NOS (J82.89)