ICD-10-CM code "A48.0": Gas gangrene (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeA48.0
DescriptionGas gangrene
Hierarchy
  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  2. Other bacterial diseases (A30-A49)
  3. Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified (A48)
  4. Gas gangrene (A48.0)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

Excludes

  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Type 1certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters

    Type 2carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)

    Type 2infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)

    Type 2infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)

    Type 2influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)

  2. Other bacterial diseases (A30-A49)
  3. Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified (A48)

    Type 1actinomycetoma (B47.1)

  4. Gas gangrene (A48.0)

Includes

  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Includesdiseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

  2. Other bacterial diseases (A30-A49)
  3. Other bacterial diseases, not elsewhere classified (A48)
  4. Gas gangrene (A48.0)