A07.0
A07.0: Balantidiasis
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
A07.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for balantidiasis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check A07.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Balantidial dysentery
Other codes that can never be billed with A07.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- A06Amebiasis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
A07.0 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56456Billing and Coding: Colonoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy/Proctosigmoidoscopy
- A56632Billing and Coding: Colonoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy/Proctosigmoidoscopy
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Balantidiasis, balantidiosis
- Anemia›Balantidium coli
- Colitis›balantidial
- Diarrhea, diarrheal›balantidial
- Dysentery, dysenteric›balantidial
- Dysentery, dysenteric›Balantidium coli
- Infection, infected, infective›Balantidium coli
- Infestation›Balantidium coli
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.