A54.41 — Gonococcal spondylopathy
A54.41 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for gonococcal spondylopathy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with A54.41
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A54.41. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A54.41 alone.
- M49Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere
Risk adjustment
A54.41 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 92 Bone/Joint/Muscle/Severe Soft Tissue Infections/Necrosis0.479 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
How A54.41 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 A54.41.
- Spondylitis›gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal›musculoskeletal›spondylopathy
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A54.4. If A54.41 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A54.41
- Is A54.41 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A54.41 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A54.41 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).