ICD-10-CM Code P37.3

Valid for Submission

P37.3 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of congenital falciparum malaria. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code P37.3 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like congenital falciparum malaria or congenital malaria or falciparum malaria.

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 P37.3 are found in the index:

• - Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) - B99.9
  • - congenital - P39.9
    • - malaria NEC - P37.4
      • - falciparum - P37.3
    • - Plasmodium falciparum - P37.3

• - Malaria, malarial (fever) - B54
  • - congenital NEC - P37.4
    • - falciparum - P37.3

Synonyms

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

• Congenital falciparum malaria
• Congenital malaria
• Falciparum malaria

Convert P37.3 to ICD-9

• 771.2 - Congenital infec NEC (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00–P96)
  • Infections specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
    • Other congenital infectious and parasitic diseases (P37)

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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