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Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
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Other bacterial diseases
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Bacterial infection of unspecified site
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2018 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A49.02
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code
- A49.02 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- Short description: Methicillin resis staph infection, unsp site
- The 2018 edition of ICD-10-CM A49.02 became effective on October 1, 2017.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A49.02 - other international versions of ICD-10 A49.02 may differ.
Applicable To- Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection
The following code(s) above
A49.02 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
- Applicable To annotations, or
- Code Also annotations, or
- Code First annotations, or
- Excludes1 annotations, or
- Excludes2 annotations, or
- Includes annotations, or
- Note annotations, or
- Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to
A49.02:
- Methicillin resistant staph aureus (mrsa) infection
- Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus infection
ICD-10-CM A49.02 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v35.0):
- 867 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with mcc
- 868 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with cc
- 869 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses without cc/mcc
Convert A49.02 to ICD-9-CM
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
Code annotations containing back-references to A49.02:
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code B99.9
Unspecified infectious disease
2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code
- methicillin
- resistant Staphylococcus aureus A49.02 (MRSA)
- staphylococcal, unspecified site
- aureus (methicillin susceptible) (MSSA) A49.01
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A49.01
Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code
Applicable To- Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infection
- Staphylococcus aureus infection NOS
- methicillin resistant A49.02 (MRSA)
- MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To A49.02
A48.2 Nonpneumonic Legionnaires' disease [Pontiac fever]
A48.3 Toxic shock syndrome
A48.4 Brazilian purpuric fever
A48.5 Other specified botulism
A48.8 Other specified bacterial diseases
A49 Bacterial infection of unspecified site
A49.0 Staphylococcal infection, unspecified site
A49.01 Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
A49.02
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
A49.1 Streptococcal infection, unspecified site
A49.2 Hemophilus influenzae infection, unspecified site
A49.3 Mycoplasma infection, unspecified site
A49.8 Other bacterial infections of unspecified site
A49.9 Bacterial infection, unspecified
A50.0 Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
A50.01 Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
A50.02 Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy
A50.03 Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis
Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.
