Valid for Submission
A15.0 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of tuberculosis of lung. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A15.0 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abscess of lung, antibiotic resistant tuberculosis, fibrosis of pleura, inactive tuberculosis, inactive tuberculosis of lung, infiltrative lung tuberculosis, etc
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code A15.0:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Tuberculous bronchiectasis
- Tuberculous fibrosis of lung
- Tuberculous pneumonia
- Tuberculous pneumothorax
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 A15.0 are found in the index:
- - Aneurysm (anastomotic) (artery) (cirsoid) (diffuse) (false) (fusiform) (multiple) (saccular) - I72.9
- - Rasmussen NEC - A15.0
- - Assmann's focus NEC - A15.0
- - Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) - R58
- - tuberculous NEC - See Also: Tuberculosis, pulmonary; - A15.0
- - Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous (calcification) (calcified) (caseous) (chromogenic acid-fast bacilli) (degeneration) (fibrocaseous) (fistula) (interstitial) (isolated circumscribed lesions) (necrosis) (parenchymatous) (ulcerative) - A15.9
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Abscess of lung
- Antibiotic resistant tuberculosis
- Fibrosis of pleura
- Inactive tuberculosis
- Inactive tuberculosis of lung
- Infiltrative lung tuberculosis
- Isoniazid resistant tuberculosis
- Isoniazid resistant tuberculosis of lung
- Mycobacterial pneumonia
- Nodular tuberculosis of lung
- Post-infective pleural fibrosis
- Post-tuberculous pleural fibrosis
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Reactivation tuberculosis
- Reinfection pulmonary tuberculosis
- Relapse pulmonary tuberculosis
- Thickening of pleura
- Tuberculosis of lung with cavitation
- Tuberculosis of lung with involvement of bronchus
- Tuberculosis of lung, bacteriological and histological examination not done
- Tuberculosis of lung, bacteriologically and histologically negative
- Tuberculosis of lung, confirmed by culture only
- Tuberculosis of lung, confirmed by sputum microscopy with or without culture
- Tuberculosis of lung, confirmed histologically
- Tuberculous abscess
- Tuberculous abscess of lung
- Tuberculous bronchiectasis
- Tuberculous fibrosis of lung
- Tuberculous pneumonia
- Tuberculous pneumothorax
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code A15.0 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 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.
- 177 - RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC
- 178 - RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH CC
- 179 - RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Convert A15.0 to ICD-9
- 011.90 - Pulmonary TB NOS-unspec (Approximate Flag)
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