A56.02 — Chlamydial vulvovaginitis
A56.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chlamydial vulvovaginitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with A56.02
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A56.02. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A56.02 alone.
Risk adjustment
A56.02 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
A56.02 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies — 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58720Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58747Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58761Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
How A56.02 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 A56.02.
- Chlamydia, chlamydial›vulvovaginitis
- Vaginitis›chlamydial
- Vulvitis›chlamydial
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A56.0. If A56.02 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A56.02
- Is A56.02 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A56.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A56.02 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).