A39.82 — Meningococcal retrobulbar neuritis
A39.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for meningococcal retrobulbar neuritis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
A39.82 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
A39.82 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.
- A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56729Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Head and Neck
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
- A57123Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
How A39.82 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 A39.82.
- Infection, infected, infective›meningococcal›retrobulbar neuritis
- Neuritis›retrobulbar›meningococcal
- Neuritis›retrobulbar›in›meningococcal infection
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A39.8. If A39.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A39.82
- Is A39.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A39.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A39.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Other bacterial diseases (A30-A49).