A07.2 — Cryptosporidiosis
A07.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for cryptosporidiosis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with A07.2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A07.2. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A07.2 alone.
- B60Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
A07.2 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 6 Opportunistic Infections0.381 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
A07.2 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 A07.2 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 A07.2.
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Infection, infected, infective›Cryptosporidium
- Diarrhea, diarrheal›due to›Cryptosporidium
- Gastroenteritis›due to›Cryptosporidium
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A07. If A07.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A07.2
- Is A07.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A07.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A07.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).