1. ICD-10-CM Codes
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2. A00-B99 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
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3. B00-B09 Viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions
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4. B06- Rubella [German measles]
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5. 2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code B06.9

2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code B06.9

Rubella without complication

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Billable/Specific Code

• B06.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM B06.9 became effective on October 1, 2021.
• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of B06.9 - other international versions of ICD-10 B06.9 may differ.

• Postpartum rubella (after childbirth)
• Rubella
• Rubella complicating puerperium
• Rubella in childbirth
• Rubella in pregnancy

• A viral infection caused by the rubella virus. It is initially manifested with flu-like symptoms that last one or two days, followed by the development of a characteristic red rash which lasts from one to five days. The rash first appears in the neck and face. It subsequently spreads to the rest of the body.
• Acute infectious disease caused by the rubella virus and most often affecting children and nonimmune young adults, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and spreads to the lymphatic system; usually benign; however transplacental infection of the fetus in the first trimester can cause death or severe developmental abnormalities (congenital rubella syndrome).
• An acute infectious disease caused by the rubella virus. The virus enters the respiratory tract via airborne droplet and spreads to the lymphatic system.
• Rubella is an illness with flu-like symptoms followed by a rash. Common symptoms include
  • low-grade fever
  • headache
  • runny nose
  • red eyes
  • muscle or joint pain
  rubella is usually mild. You may get it and not even know it. However, adults who get rubella often feel sicker than children do. The biggest danger of rubella is if a woman gets it during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. She may lose the baby, or the virus could cause problems to her unborn baby. Those problems could include cataracts, deafness or damage to the heart or brain.a virus causes rubella. It can spread from one person to another through the air or through close contact with someone who has it. There is no treatment for rubella, but the measles-mumps-rubella (mmr) vaccine can prevent it.

• 865 Viral illness with mcc
• 866 Viral illness without mcc

Convert B06.9 to ICD-9-CM

• 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

• Rash (toxic) R21
  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R21

  Rash and other nonspecific skin eruption

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Billable/Specific Code

  Includes

  • rash NOS

  Type 1 Excludes

  • specified type of rash- code to condition
  • vesicular eruption (R23.8)
  • rose R21
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R21

    Rash and other nonspecific skin eruption

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Billable/Specific Code

    Includes

    • rash NOS

    Type 1 Excludes

    • specified type of rash- code to condition
    • vesicular eruption (R23.8)
    • epidemic B06.9
• Rose
  • rash R21
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R21

    Rash and other nonspecific skin eruption

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Billable/Specific Code

    Includes

    • rash NOS

    Type 1 Excludes

    • specified type of rash- code to condition
    • vesicular eruption (R23.8)
    • epidemic B06.9
• Rubella (German measles) B06.9

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.