ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z20-Z29 › Z22.32 Carrier of bacterial disease due... › Z22.322
Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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 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 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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 Z22 Carrier of infectious disease
Excludes2 - not included here
- carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)
Includes
- colonization status
- suspected carrier
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.
- Postsurgery status
- Colonization > status
- Status > colonization
- Elevated, elevation > GFR
- Test, tests, testing > blood-drug > positive
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > finding
- Test, tests, testing > blood-alcohol > positive
- Elevated, elevation > finding on laboratory examination
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > drugs
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > toxins
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis > culture > positive
- Colonization > MRSA
- Carrier of > staphylococci > Methicillin resistant
- Positive > culture > nose > staphylococcus > Methicillin resistant
- Carrier of > bacterial disease NEC > staphylococcal > Methicillin resistant
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z22.321 | Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus | Valid |