Wound myiasis

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 Wound myiasis

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 B87 Myiasis

Includes

infestation by larva of flies

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.

Estriasis
Oestriasis
Infestation > maggots
Parasitism > specified
Infestation > Dermatobia
Infestation > fly larvae
Infestation > screw worms
Infestation > Oestrus ovis
Infestation > Gasterophilus
Infection, infected, infective > Oestrus ovis
Disease, diseased > parasitic > specified type
Infestation > helminth > intestinal > diphyllobothriasis
Infestation > helminth > intestinal > specified > cestode NEC
Myiasis > wound
Myiasis > traumatic

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
B87.0	Cutaneous myiasis	Valid
B87.2	Ocular myiasis	Valid
B87.3	Nasopharyngeal myiasis	Valid
B87.4	Aural myiasis	Valid
B87.8	Myiasis of other sites	Not billable
B87.9	Myiasis, unspecified	Valid