ICD-10-CM Code B27.02

Valid for Submission

B27.02 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of gammaherpesviral mononucleosis with meningitis. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code B27.02 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like epstein barr virus infection of the central nervous system or meningitis caused by epstein-barr virus.

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 B27.02 are found in the index:

• - Mononucleosis, infectious - B27.90
  • - Epstein-Barr (virus) - B27.00
    • - with
      • - meningitis - B27.02
  • - gammaherpesviral - B27.00
    • - with
      • - meningitis - B27.02

Synonyms

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

• Epstein Barr virus infection of the central nervous system
• Meningitis caused by Epstein-Barr virus

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code B27.02 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.

• 865 - VIRAL ILLNESS WITH MCC
• 866 - VIRAL ILLNESS WITHOUT MCC

Convert B27.02 to ICD-9

• 075 - Infectious mononucleosis (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00–B99)
  • Other viral diseases (B25-B34)
    • Infectious mononucleosis (B27)

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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