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Category · FY2027

A24 Glanders and melioidosis

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A24 is not billable. The category heads 5 billable codes in FY2027: the 5 codes directly below it.

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Where it sits

  1. Chapter 1 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  2. A20-A28 Certain zoonotic bacterial diseases (A20-A28)
  3. A24 Glanders and melioidosis
Billable codes
5
Subdivisions
5
CC / MCC codes
5 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
29

Codes in A24

  1. A24.0
    Glanders
    BillableCC
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Infection due to Pseudomonas mallei
    • Malleus
  2. A24.1
    Acute and fulminating melioidosis
    BillableCC
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Melioidosis pneumonia
    • Melioidosis sepsis
  3. A24.2
    Subacute and chronic melioidosis
    BillableCC
  4. A24.3
    Other melioidosis
    BillableCC
  5. A24.9
    Melioidosis, unspecified
    BillableCC
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Infection due to Pseudomonas pseudomallei NOS
    • Whitmore's disease

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).

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Chapter 1 instructions (Includes 1, Excludes2 5, Use additional code 1): printed on the chapter 1 page.

Index entries

  • Equinia → A24.0
  • Farcy → A24.0
  • Glanders → A24.0
  • Malleus → A24.0
  • Melioidosis → A24.9
  • Actinobacillosis, actinobacillusmallei → A24.0
  • Bacillusmallei infection → A24.0
  • Burkholderiamallei → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)glanders → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)Loefflerella mallei → A24.0
  • Pseudomonasmallei infection → A24.0
  • Sepsis (generalized) (unspecified organism)malleus → A24.0
  • Melioidosisacute → A24.1
  • Melioidosisfulminating → A24.1
  • Melioidosispneumonia → A24.1
  • Melioidosissepsis → A24.1
  • Sepsis (generalized) (unspecified organism)melioidosis → A24.1
  • Melioidosischronic → A24.2
  • Melioidosispulmonary (chronic) → A24.2
  • Melioidosissubacute → A24.2
  • Melioidosisspecified NEC → A24.3
  • Arthritis, arthritic (acute) (chronic) (nonpyogenic) (subacute)due to or associated withglanders → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)Actinobacillus (actinomycetem-comitans)mallei → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)Bacillusmallei → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)Malleomycesmallei → A24.0
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic)Pseudomonas NECmallei → A24.0
  • Melioidosispulmonary (chronic)acute → A24.1
  • Melioidosispulmonary (chronic)subacute → A24.2
  • Pneumonia (acute) (double) (migratory) (purulent) (septic) (unresolved)in (due to)Pseudomonas NECpseudomallei → A24.1

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