A52.15 — Late syphilitic neuropathy
A52.15 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for late syphilitic neuropathy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Late syphilitic acoustic neuritis
- Late syphilitic optic (nerve) atrophy
- Late syphilitic polyneuropathy
- Late syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis
Other codes that can never be billed with A52.15
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A52.15. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A52.15 alone.
Risk adjustment
A52.15 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
A52.15 is named in 32 Medicare coverage policies — 29 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 3 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56731Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks and Electrostimulation for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
- A57589Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
- A57663Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
- A52996Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
How A52.15 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 A52.15.
- Deafness›syphilitic
- Disturbance›neuromuscular mechanism, due to syphilis(eye)
- Neuritis›syphilitic
- Neurosyphilis›optic atrophy
- Polyneuropathy›syphilitic(late)
- Syphilis, syphilitic›acoustic nerve
- Syphilis, syphilitic›cranial nerve
- Syphilis, syphilitic›eighth nerve(neuritis)
- Syphilis, syphilitic›nerve palsy(any cranial nerve)
- Syphilis, syphilitic›neuritis
- Syphilis, syphilitic›optic nerve(atrophy) (neuritis) (papilla)
- Syphilis, syphilitic›retrobulbar neuritis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A52.1. If A52.15 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A52.15
- Is A52.15 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A52.15 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A52.15 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).