2021 ICD-10-CM Code A52.15
Late syphilitic neuropathy
Valid for Submission
A52.15 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of late syphilitic neuropathy. The code A52.15 is valid during the fiscal year 2021 from October 01, 2020 through September 30, 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The ICD-10-CM code A52.15 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like acoustic neuritis, infection causing inflammation of optic nerve, retrobulbar neuritis, secondary neurosyphilis, syphilitic acoustic neuritis , syphilitic acoustic neuritis - quaternary stage, etc.
ICD-10: | A52.15 |
Short Description: | Late syphilitic neuropathy |
Long Description: | Late syphilitic neuropathy |
Code Classification
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 A52.15:
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.
- Late syphilitic acoustic neuritis
- Late syphilitic optic (nerve) atrophy
- Late syphilitic polyneuropathy
- Late syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis
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 A52.15 are found in the index:
- - Atrophy, atrophic (of)
- - nerve - See Also: Disorder, nerve;
- - optic (papillomacular bundle)
- - syphilitic (late) - A52.15
- - optic (papillomacular bundle)
- - optic (nerve) - H47.20
- - syphilitic (late) - A52.15
- - nerve - See Also: Disorder, nerve;
- - Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) - H91.9
- - syphilitic - A52.15
- - Disturbance (s) - See Also: Disease;
- - Neuritis (rheumatoid) - M79.2
- - acoustic (nerve) - See Also: subcategory; - H93.3
- - syphilitic - A52.15
- - retrobulbar - See Also: Neuritis, optic, retrobulbar;
- - in (due to)
- - late syphilis - A52.15
- - syphilitic - A52.15
- - in (due to)
- - syphilitic - A52.15
- - acoustic (nerve) - See Also: subcategory; - H93.3
- - Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) - A52.3
- - optic atrophy - A52.15
- - Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) - G83.9
- - nerve - See Also: Disorder, nerve;
- - syphilitic - A52.15
- - nerve - See Also: Disorder, nerve;
- - Polyneuropathy (peripheral) - G62.9
- - in (due to)
- - syphilis (late) - A52.15
- - syphilitic (late) - A52.15
- - in (due to)
- - Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) - A53.9
- - acoustic nerve - A52.15
- - cerebral - A52.17
- - nerves (multiple palsies) - A52.15
- - cranial nerve - A52.15
- - multiple palsies - A52.15
- - ear - A52.79
- - inner - A52.79
- - nerve (eighth) - A52.15
- - neurorecurrence - A52.15
- - inner - A52.79
- - eighth nerve (neuritis) - A52.15
- - nerve palsy (any cranial nerve) - A52.15
- - multiple - A52.15
- - neuritis - A52.15
- - acoustic - A52.15
- - optic nerve (atrophy) (neuritis) (papilla) - A52.15
- - retrobulbar neuritis - A52.15
- - seventh nerve (paralysis) - A52.15
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Acoustic neuritis
- Infection causing inflammation of optic nerve
- Retrobulbar neuritis
- Secondary neurosyphilis
- Syphilitic acoustic neuritis
- Syphilitic acoustic neuritis - quaternary stage
- Syphilitic optic atrophy
- Syphilitic polyneuropathy
- Syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis
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Information for Patients
Syphilis
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The early stage of syphilis usually causes a single, small, painless sore. Sometimes it causes swelling in nearby lymph nodes. If you do not treat it, syphilis usually causes a non-itchy skin rash, often on your hands and feet. Many people do not notice symptoms for years. Symptoms can go away and come back.
The sores caused by syphilis make it easier to get or give someone HIV during sex. If you are pregnant, syphilis can cause complications, or you could lose your baby. In rare cases, syphilis causes serious health problems and even death.
Syphilis is easy to cure with antibiotics if you catch it early. Correct usage of latex condoms greatly reduces, but does not completely eliminate, the risk of catching or spreading syphilis. The most reliable way to avoid infection is to not have anal, vaginal, or oral sex.
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Code History
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)