ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P35-P39 › P37 Other congenital infectious and... › P37.0
Congenital tuberculosis
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 Congenital tuberculosis
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 P37 Other congenital infectious and parasitic diseases
Excludes2 - not included here
- congenital syphilis (A50.-)
- infectious neonatal diarrhea (A00-A09)
- necrotizing enterocolitis in newborn (P77.-)
- noninfectious neonatal diarrhea (P78.3)
- ophthalmia neonatorum due to gonococcus (A54.31)
- tetanus neonatorum (A33)
Inherited from the P35-P39 section Infections specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
Excludes2 - not included here
- asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection status (Z21)
- congenital gonococcal infection (A54.-)
- congenital pneumonia (P23.-)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
- infant botulism (A48.51)
- infectious diseases not specific to the perinatal period (A00-B99, J09, J10.-)
- intestinal infectious disease (A00-A09)
- laboratory evidence of human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] (R75)
Also known as
- Infections acquired in utero, during birth via the umbilicus, or during the first 28 days after birth
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.
- TORCH infection
- Infection, infected, infective > TORCH
- Infection, infected, infective > specific > to perinatal period
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous > congenital
- Infection, infected, infective > congenital > tuberculosis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P37.1 | Congenital toxoplasmosis | Valid |
| P37.2 | Neonatal (disseminated) listeriosis | Valid |
| P37.3 | Congenital falciparum malaria | Valid |
| P37.4 | Other congenital malaria | Valid |
| P37.5 | Neonatal candidiasis | Valid |
| P37.8 | Other specified congenital infectious and parasitic diseases | Valid |
| P37.9 | Congenital infectious or parasitic disease, unspecified | Valid |