A03.1
A03.1: Shigellosis due to Shigella flexneri
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
A03.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for shigellosis due to shigella flexneri. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check A03.1 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Group B shigellosis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
A03.1 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies: 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58720Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58747Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58761Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Flexner's dysentery
- Hiss-Russell dysentery
- Bacillus›Flexner's
- Diarrhea, diarrheal›Flexner's(ulcerative)
- Dysentery, dysenteric›Flexner's
- Dysentery, dysenteric›Hiss-Russell
- Shigellosis›Group B
- Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Flexner
- Infection, infected, infective›Bacillus›Flexner's
- Infection, infected, infective›Shigella›flexneri
- Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Shigella›flexneri
- Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Shigella›group B
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.