Resistance to multiple antimicrobial drugs

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 2012 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Resistance to multiple antimicrobial drugs

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 Z16 Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Excludes1 - never coded here

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)

Code first

the infection

Note

The codes in this category are provided for use as additional codes to identify the resistance and non-responsiveness of a condition to antimicrobial drugs.

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.

Drug > resistant organism infection
Infection, infected, infective > with > drug resistant organism
Resistance, resistant > organism > to > drug > antimicrobial > multiple
Resistance, resistant > organism > to > drug > multiple drugs > antimicrobial

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z16.30	Resistance to unspecified antimicrobial drugs	Valid
Z16.31	Resistance to antiparasitic drug(s)	Valid
Z16.32	Resistance to antifungal drug(s)	Valid
Z16.33	Resistance to antiviral drug(s)	Valid
Z16.34	Resistance to antimycobacterial drug(s)	Not billable
Z16.39	Resistance to other specified antimicrobial drug	Valid