A06.0 — Acute amebic dysentery
A06.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for acute amebic dysentery. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acute amebiasis
- Intestinal amebiasis NOS
Risk adjustment
A06.0 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
A06.0 is named in 7 Medicare coverage policies — 7 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A57342Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Colonoscopy
- 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
How A06.0 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 A06.0.
- Amebiasis›acute
- Amebiasis›intestine
- Colitis›amebic(acute)
- Diarrhea, diarrheal›amebic
- Dysentery, dysenteric›amebic
- Enteritis›amebic(acute)
- Proctitis›amebic(acute)
- Diarrhea, diarrheal›amebic›acute
- Dysentery, dysenteric›amebic›acute
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A06. If A06.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A06.0
- Is A06.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A06.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A06.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).