A52.11
A52.11: Tabes dorsalis
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
A52.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for tabes dorsalis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check A52.11 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Locomotor ataxia (progressive)
- Tabetic neurosyphilis
Other codes that can never be billed with A52.11
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
A52.11 is named in 11 Medicare coverage policies: 11 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52996Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
- A56232Billing and Coding: Foot Care
- A56680Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Pel's crisis
- Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic›locomotor(progressive) (syphilitic) (partial) (spastic)
- Atrophy, atrophic›neurogenic, bone, tabetic
- Crisis›Pel's(tabetic)
- Crisis›tabetic
- Duchenne's›locomotor ataxia(syphilitic)
- Neurosyphilis›tabes, tabetic(dorsalis)
- Radiculopathy›syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic›ataxia(locomotor)
- Syphilis, syphilitic›combined spinal sclerosis
- Syphilis, syphilitic›locomotor ataxia
- Syphilis, syphilitic›tabes dorsalis(late)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.