Is A03.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. A03.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does A03.2 sit in the tabular list?

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).

A03.2

A03.2 — Shigellosis due to Shigella boydii

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A03.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for shigellosis due to shigella boydii. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Group C shigellosis

Risk adjustment

A03.2 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

A03.2 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

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

How A03.2 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to A03.2.

Boyd's dysentery
Flexner-Boyd dysentery
Dysentery, dysenteric›Boyd's
Dysentery, dysenteric›Flexner-Boyd
Shigellosis›Group C
Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Boyd
Infection, infected, infective›Shigella›boydii
Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Shigella›boydii
Dysentery, dysenteric›bacillary›Shigella›group C
Infection, infected, infective›Shigella›group›C

Related codes at this level

Codes that share A03. If A03.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about A03.2

Is A03.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. A03.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does A03.2 sit in the tabular list?: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).