ICD-10-CM Code A88.8

Valid for Submission

A88.8 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other specified viral infections of central nervous system. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A88.8 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like cache valley virus infection, coxsackievirus infection of the central nervous system, disease due to parvoviridae, echovirus disease, echovirus infection of the central nervous system, enterovirus infection of the 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 A88.8 are found in the index:

• - Coxsackie (virus) (infection) - B34.1
  • - central nervous system NEC - A88.8

• - Disease, diseased - See Also: Syndrome;
  • - enteroviral, enterovirus NEC - B34.1
    • - central nervous system NEC - A88.8

• - Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) - B99.9
  • - virus, viral NOS - B34.9
    • - central nervous system - A89
      • - enterovirus NEC - A88.8
      • - specified NEC - A88.8

Synonyms

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

• Cache Valley virus infection
• Coxsackievirus infection of the central nervous system
• Disease due to Parvoviridae
• Echovirus disease
• Echovirus infection of the central nervous system
• Enterovirus infection of the central nervous system
• Epstein Barr virus infection of the central nervous system
• Influenza with CNS disorder
• Measles of the central nervous system
• Neuroinvasive Cache Valley virus disease
• Parvovirus infection
• Parvovirus infection of the central nervous system

Convert A88.8 to ICD-9

• 049.8 - Viral encephalitis NEC (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00–B99)
  • Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)
    • Oth viral infections of central nervous system, NEC (A88)

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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