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ICD-10-CM Codes
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A00-B99
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
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A20-A28
Certain zoonotic bacterial diseases
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Plague
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2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A20
2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A20
Plague
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
- A20 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
- The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM A20 became effective on October 1, 2021.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A20 - other international versions of ICD-10 A20 may differ.
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- infection due to Yersinia pestis
The following code(s) above
A20 contain annotation back-references
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that may be applicable to
A20:
Clinical Information
- A gram-negative bacterial infection caused by yersinia pestis. It is usually transmitted to humans from bites of infected rodent fleas. It is manifested as a bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic plague. In bubonic plague, the lymph nodes adjacent to the site of the skin bite are infected and enlarged. In septicemic plague, the infection spreads directly through the bloodstream. In pneumonic plague, the infection spreads to the lungs either following bubonic plague, or by inhalation of infective droplets. If untreated, it may lead to death.
- Acute infectious disease caused by yersinia pestis that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites; bubonic plague is the most common form.
- An acute infectious disease caused by yersinia pestis that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.
- An infectious disease
- Plague is an infection caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis. The bacteria are found mainly in rats and in the fleas that feed on them. People and other animals can get plague from rat or flea bites. Historically, plague destroyed entire civilizations. In the 1300s, the "black death," as it was called, killed approximately one-third of europe's population. Today plague is uncommon. This is largely due to better living conditions and antibiotics. There are three forms of plague:
- bubonic, which causes the tonsils, adenoids, spleen and thymus to become inflamed. Symptoms include fever, aches, chills and tender lymph glands
- septicemic, in which bacteria multiply in the blood. It causes fever, chills, shock and bleeding under the skin or other organs
- pneumonic, in which the bacteria enter the lungs and cause pneumonia. People with the infection can spread this form to others. This type could be a bioterror agent
treatment for plague is a strong antibiotic. There is no vaccine for plague.
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
Code annotations containing back-references to A20:
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To A20
A18.83 Tuberculosis of digestive tract organs, not elsewhere classified
A18.89 Tuberculosis of other sites
A19.0 Acute miliary tuberculosis of a single specified site
A19.1 Acute miliary tuberculosis of multiple sites
A19.2 Acute miliary tuberculosis, unspecified
A19.8 Other miliary tuberculosis
A19.9 Miliary tuberculosis, unspecified
A20
Plague
A20.1 Cellulocutaneous plague
A20.8 Other forms of plague
A20.9 Plague, unspecified
A21.0 Ulceroglandular tularemia
A21.1 Oculoglandular tularemia
Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.