ICD-10-CM Code A50.6

Valid for Submission

A50.6 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of late congenital syphilis, latent. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A50.6 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like late congenital syphilis or late congenital syphilis, latent or late latent syphilis or latent syphilis with positive serology.

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 A50.6:

Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These 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.

• Congenital syphilis without clinical manifestations, with positive serological reaction and negative spinal fluid test, two years or more after birth.

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 A50.6 are found in the index:

• - Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) - A53.9
  • - congenital - A50.9
    • - late, or 2 years or more after birth NEC - A50.7
      • - latent (without manifestations) - A50.6
        • - negative spinal fluid test - A50.6
        • - serology positive - A50.6

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Late congenital syphilis
• Late congenital syphilis, latent
• Late latent syphilis
• Latent syphilis with positive serology

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code A50.6 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 A50.6 to ICD-9

• 090.6 - Late congen syph latent

Code Classification

• Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00–B99)
  • Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)
    • Congenital syphilis (A50)

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

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