A50.03
A50.03 — Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
A50.03 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Early congenital syphilitic laryngitis
Risk adjustment
A50.03 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.
How A50.03 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 A50.03.
- Catarrh, catarrhal›due to congenital syphilis
- Pharyngitis›syphilitic, congenital(early)
- Laryngitis›syphilitic›congenital›early
- Laryngotracheitis›syphilitic›congenital›early
- Syphilis, syphilitic›congenital›early, or less than 2 years after birth NEC›symptomatic›pharyngitis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A50.0. If A50.03 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- A50.01Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
- A50.02Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy
- A50.04Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia
- A50.05Early congenital syphilitic rhinitis
- A50.06Early cutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.07Early mucocutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.08Early visceral congenital syphilis
- A50.09Other early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
Questions about A50.03
- Is A50.03 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A50.03 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A50.03 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64).