Proteus (mirabilis) (morganii) as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

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 Proteus (mirabilis) (morganii) as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

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 the B95-B97 section Bacterial and viral infectious agents (B95-B97)

Note

These categories are provided for use as supplementary or additional codes to identify the infectious agent(s) in diseases classified elsewhere.

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.

Proteus, as cause of disease classified elsewhere
Infection, infected, infective > Proteus NEC > as cause of disease classified elsewhere
Infection, infected, infective > bacterial NOS > as cause of disease classified elsewhere > Proteus

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
B96.0	Mycoplasma pneumoniae [M. pneumoniae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.1	Klebsiella pneumoniae [K. pneumoniae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.2	Escherichia coli [E. coli ] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Not billable
B96.3	Hemophilus influenzae [H. influenzae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.5	Pseudomonas (aeruginosa) (mallei) (pseudomallei) as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.6	Bacteroides fragilis [B. fragilis] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.7	Clostridium perfringens [C. perfringens] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Valid
B96.8	Other specified bacterial agents as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere	Not billable