Other bacterial meningitis

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 Other bacterial meningitis

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 G00 Bacterial meningitis, not elsewhere classified

Excludes1 - never coded here

bacterial meningoencephalitis (G04.2)
bacterial meningomyelitis (G04.2)

Includes

bacterial arachnoiditis
bacterial leptomeningitis
bacterial meningitis
bacterial pachymeningitis

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.

Arachnitis
Arachnoiditis
Fever > spinal
Perimeningitis
Febris, febrile
Hydromeningitis
Leptomeningitis
Pachymeningitis
Effusion > spinal
Fever > meningeal
Meningoradiculitis
Sepsis > meningeal
Effusion > meninges
Effusion > cerebrospinal
Fever > viral hemorrhagic
Infection, infected, infective > meninges
Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > meninges
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > arachnoid
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pia mater
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > dura mater
Infection, infected, infective > brain > membranes
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain > membrane
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
Infection, infected, infective > brain > septic > meninges
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > membranes of brain or spinal cord
Meningitis > Klebsiella
Meningitis > Friedländer
Meningitis > Mima polymorpha
Meningitis > Escherichia coli
Meningitis > bacterial > Klebsiella
Meningitis > specified organism NEC
Meningitis > bacterial > Friedländer
Meningitis > bacterial > Escherichia coli
Meningitis > septic > specified organism NEC
Meningitis > purulent > specified organism NEC
Meningitis > pyogenic > specified organism NEC
Meningitis > bacterial > specified organism NEC

Showing 40 of 42 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G00.0	Hemophilus meningitis	Valid
G00.1	Pneumococcal meningitis	Valid
G00.2	Streptococcal meningitis	Valid
G00.3	Staphylococcal meningitis	Valid
G00.9	Bacterial meningitis, unspecified	Valid