A54.89 — Other gonococcal infections
A54.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other gonococcal infections. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Gonococcal keratoderma
- Gonococcal lymphadenitis
Other codes that can never be billed with A54.89
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A54.89. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A54.89 alone.
Risk adjustment
A54.89 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 A54.89 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 A54.89.
- Adenitis›gonorrheal NEC
- Bubo›blennorrhagic(gonococcal)
- Bubo›gonococcal
- Cellulitis›gonococcal
- Dermatosis›gonococcal
- Gonococcus, gonococcal›lymphatic(gland) (node)
- Gonococcus, gonococcal›skin
- Gonococcus, gonococcal›specified site NEC
- Gonorrhea›specified site not listed
- Keratoderma, keratodermia›gonococcal
- Keratoderma, keratodermia›gonorrheal
- Keratosis›gonococcal
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A54.8. If A54.89 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A54.89
- Is A54.89 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A54.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A54.89 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).