Valid for Submission
A18.51 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of tuberculous episcleritis. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A18.51 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like infective scleritis or tuberculosis of eye or tuberculous episcleritis.
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 A18.51 are found in the index:
- - Episcleritis (suppurative) - H15.10
- - in (due to)
- - tuberculosis - A18.51
- - tuberculous - A18.51
- - in (due to)
- - Scleritis - H15.00
- - tuberculous (nodular) - A18.51
- - Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous (calcification) (calcified) (caseous) (chromogenic acid-fast bacilli) (degeneration) (fibrocaseous) (fistula) (interstitial) (isolated circumscribed lesions) (necrosis) (parenchymatous) (ulcerative) - A15.9
- - episcleritis - A18.51
- - sclera - A18.51
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Infective scleritis
- Tuberculosis of eye
- Tuberculous episcleritis
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code A18.51 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.
Convert A18.51 to ICD-9
- 017.30 - TB of eye-unspec (Approximate Flag)
- 017.30 - TB of eye-unspec (Combination Flag)
- 379.09 - Scleritis NEC (Combination 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