ICD-10-CM Code B40.8
Other forms of blastomycosis
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code B40.8 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of B40.8 that describes the diagnosis 'other forms of blastomycosis' in more detail.
- B40.8 Other forms of blastomycosis NON-BILLABLE
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- BILLABLE B40.81 Blastomycotic meningoencephalitis
- BILLABLE B40.89 Other forms of blastomycosis
The ICD code B40 is used to code Blastomycosis
Blastomycosis (also known as "North American blastomycosis", "Blastomycetic dermatitis", and "Gilchrist's disease") is a fungal infection of humans and other animals, notably dogs and occasionally cats, caused by the organism Blastomyces dermatitidis. Endemic to portions of North America, blastomycosis causes clinical symptoms similar to histoplasmosis. The disease occurs in several endemic areas the most important of which is in eastern North America, particularly in the western and northern periphery of the Great Lakes Basin, extending eastward along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River Valley and southward in the territory spanned by the central Appalachian Mountains in the east, to the Mississippi River Valley in the west. Sporadic cases have been reported in continental Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.
| Specialty: | Infectious Disease |
| MeSH Code: | D001759 |
| ICD 9 Code: | 116.0 |
Skin lesions of blastomycosis.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'B40.8 - Other forms of blastomycosis'
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Parent Code: B40 - Blastomycosis