Valid for Submission
A06.9 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of amebiasis, unspecified. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A06.9 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abscess caused by entamoeba histolytica, amebic appendicitis, amebic balanitis, amebic encephalitis, amebic infection, amebic infection of central nervous system, etc
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code A06.9 are found in the index:
- - Amebiasis - A06.9
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Abscess caused by Entamoeba histolytica
- Amebic appendicitis
- Amebic balanitis
- Amebic encephalitis
- Amebic infection
- Amebic infection of central nervous system
- Asymptomatic amebic infection
- Disease due to Endamoebidae
- Disease due to Hartmannellidae
- Disease due to Vahlkampfiidae
- Extraintestinal infection caused by Entamoeba
- Infection by Endolimax
- Infection by Entamoeba
- Infection by Entamoeba coli
- Infection by Hartmannella
- Infection by Iodamoeba
- Infection by Vahlkampfia
- Infection due to Entamoeba histolytica
- Infection of intestine caused by Entamoeba histolytica
- Symptomatic non-invasive amebic infection
Clinical Information
- AMEBIASIS-. infection with any of various amebae. it is an asymptomatic carrier state in most individuals but diseases ranging from chronic mild diarrhea to fulminant dysentery may occur.
- DYSENTERY AMEBIC-. dysentery caused by intestinal amebic infection chiefly with entamoeba histolytica. this condition may be associated with amebic infection of the liver and other distant sites.
- LIVER ABSCESS AMEBIC-. single or multiple areas of pus due to infection by any ameboid protozoa amebiasis. a common form is caused by the ingestion of entamoeba histolytica.
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code A06.9 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2020.
- 867 - OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH MCC
- 868 - OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH CC
- 869 - OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC
Convert A06.9 to ICD-9
- 006.9 - Amebiasis NOS
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020