DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

B69 Cysticercosis

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B69 is not billable. The category heads 5 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 4 subdivisions.

Index → code

  • Neurocysticercosis → B69.0
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis → B69.9
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasisbrain → B69.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 1 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  2. B65-B83 Helminthiases (B65-B83)
  3. B69 Cysticercosis
Billable codes
5
Subdivisions
4
CC / MCC codes
5 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
12

Codes in B69

  1. B69.0
    Cysticercosis of central nervous system
    BillableCC
  2. B69.1
    Cysticercosis of eye
    BillableCC
  3. B69.8
    Cysticercosis of other sites
    Header
  4. B69.81
    Myositis in cysticercosis
    BillableCC
  5. B69.89
    Cysticercosis of other sites
    BillableCC
  6. B69.9
    Cysticercosis, unspecified
    BillableCC

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

At B69

Includes

  • cysticerciasis infection due to larval form of Taenia solium

Notes that also apply

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

Index entries

  • Neurocysticercosis → B69.0
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis → B69.9
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasisbrain → B69.0
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasiscentral nervous system → B69.0
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasiscerebral → B69.0
  • Epilepsy, epileptic, epilepsia (attack) (cerebral) (convulsion) (fit) (seizure)cysticercosis → B69.0
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasisocular → B69.1
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasisspecified NEC → B69.89
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasiswithepileptiform fits → B69.0
  • Endophthalmitis (acute) (infective) (metastatic) (subacute)in (due to)cysticercosis → B69.1
  • Cysticercosis, cysticerciasiswithmyositis → B69.81
  • Myositisin (due to)cysticercosis → B69.81

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