ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B65-B83 › B76 Hookworm diseases › B76.9
Hookworm disease, unspecified
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 Hookworm disease, unspecified
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 B76 Hookworm diseases
Includes
- uncinariasis
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
- Deficit
- Choroiditis
- Avitaminosis
- Helminthiasis
- Neuroretinitis
- Hypovitaminosis
- Choroidoretinitis
- Vitamin deficiency
- Uveitis > posterior
- Abscess > helminthic
- Neurochorioretinitis
- Deprivation > vitamins
- Parasitism > specified
- Deficiency, deficient > factor
- Deficiency, deficient > clotting
- Disturbance > absorption > vitamin
- Encephalopathy > in > lack of vitamin
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retina
- Disease, diseased > parasitic > specified type
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > hookworm
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > diphyllobothriasis
- Infestation > helminth > intestinal > specified > cestode NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS > posterior
- Hookworm
- Coolie itch
- Ground itch
- Uncinariasis
- Water > itch
- Anemia > miner's
- Anemia > Egyptian
- Anemia > epidemic
- Anemia > hookworm
- Anemia > tropical
- Brickmakers' anemia
- Chlorosis > miner's
- Creeping > eruption
- Eruption > creeping
- Itch, itching > dew
- Chlorosis > Egyptian
Showing 40 of 54 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B76.0 | Ancylostomiasis | Valid |
| B76.1 | Necatoriasis | Valid |
| B76.8 | Other hookworm diseases | Valid |