B50.8 - Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria
The ICD 10 Code for Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria is listed as B50.8.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.
| ICD 10 CM Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Diagnosis Code: | B50.8
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| Description: | Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria
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| Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0) |
867 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Mcc
868 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Cc 869 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W/o Cc/mcc |
| Chapter | Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) |
| Block | Protozoal diseases (B50-B64) |
| Parent | B50 - Plasmodium falciparum malaria |
| ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD 9 Dx Code: | 084.8 - Blackwater fever (approximate) |
| ICD 9 Dx Code: | 084.9 - Other pernicious complications of malaria (approximate) |
| ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of B50.8: | |
| B50.0 - Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications | |
| B50.9 - Plasmodium falciparum malaria, unspecified | |