Category · FY2027
A20 Plague
- Header · not billable
A20 is not billable. The category heads 7 billable codes in FY2027: the 7 codes directly below it.
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Where it sits
- Billable codes
- 7
- Subdivisions
- 7
- CC / MCC codes
- 0 / 7
- HCC V28 codes
- 1
- New FY2027
- 0
- Index entries
- 21
Codes in A20
- A20.0Bubonic plagueBillableMCC
- A20.1Cellulocutaneous plagueBillableMCC
- A20.2Pneumonic plagueBillableMCC
- A20.3Plague meningitisBillableMCC
- A20.7Septicemic plagueBillableMCC2
- A20.8Other forms of plagueBillableMCC
Inclusion terms 3
Inclusion terms
- Abortive plague
- Asymptomatic plague
- Pestis minor
- A20.9Plague, unspecifiedBillableMCC
CC/MCC: as a secondary diagnosis, unless the principal diagnosis is on the code’s PDX exclusion list (MS-DRG v44 Appendix C; list on the code card).
Instructions
At A20
Includes
- infection due to Yersinia pestis
Notes that also apply
Chapter 1 instructions (Includes 1, Excludes2 5, Use additional code 1): printed on the chapter 1 page.
Index entries
- Bubonic plague → A20.0
- Plague → A20.9
- Plague›bubonic → A20.0
- Plague›lymphatic gland → A20.0
- Polyadenitis›malignant → A20.0
- Plague›cellulocutaneous → A20.1
- Plague›cutaneobubonic → A20.1
- Plague›pneumonic (primary) (secondary) → A20.2
- Plague›pulmonary, pulmonic → A20.2
- Meningitis (basal) (basic) (brain) (cerebral) (cervical) (congestive) (diffuse) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (membranous) (metastatic) (nonspecific) (pontine) (progressive) (simple) (spinal) (subacute) (sympathetic) (toxic)›Yersinia pestis → A20.3
- Plague›meningitis → A20.3
- Plague›septicemic → A20.7
- Sepsis (generalized) (unspecified organism)›Yersinia pestis → A20.7
- Plague›abortive → A20.8
- Plague›ambulatory → A20.8
- Plague›asymptomatic → A20.8
- Plague›pharyngeal → A20.8
- Plague›tonsillar → A20.8
- Black›death → A20.9
- Pneumonia (acute) (double) (migratory) (purulent) (septic) (unresolved)›in (due to)›Yersinia pestis → A20.2
- Plague›tonsillar›septicemic → A20.7
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