A52.00 — Cardiovascular syphilis, unspecified
A52.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for cardiovascular syphilis, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
A52.00 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
A52.00 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How A52.00 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 A52.00.
- Syphilis, syphilitic›cardiovascular
- Syphilis, syphilitic›vascular
- Syphiloma›cardiovascular system
- Syphiloma›circulatory system
- Disease, diseased›cardiovascular›syphilitic(asymptomatic)
- Disease, diseased›circulatory NEC›syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic›early›cardiovascular
- Syphilis, syphilitic›gumma NEC›cardiovascular system
- Syphilis, syphilitic›late›cardiovascular
- Syphilis, syphilitic›tertiary›cardiovascular
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A52.0. If A52.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A52.00
- Is A52.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A52.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A52.00 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).