A41.0
A41.0: Sepsis due to Staphylococcus aureus
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
A41.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sepsis due to staphylococcus aureus. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above A41.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above A41.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on A41: Other sepsis
- sepsis (due to) (in) actinomycotic (A42.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) anthrax (A22.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) candidal (B37.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) Erysipelothrix (A26.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) extraintestinal yersiniosis (A28.2)
- sepsis (due to) (in) gonococcal (A54.86)
- sepsis (due to) (in) herpesviral (B00.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) listerial (A32.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) melioidosis (A24.1)
- sepsis (due to) (in) meningococcal (A39.2-A39.4)
- sepsis (due to) (in) plague (A20.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) tularemia (A21.7)
- toxic shock syndrome (A48.3)
Other codes that can never be billed with A41.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Z16Resistance to antimicrobial drugs
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
The condition this code belongs to
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead A41.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.