A87.0 — Enteroviral meningitis
A87.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for enteroviral meningitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Coxsackievirus meningitis
- Echovirus meningitis
Risk adjustment
A87.0 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
A87.0 is named in 7 Medicare coverage policies — 7 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
- A57206Billing and Coding: Lumbar MRI
- A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
How A87.0 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 A87.0.
- Coxsackie›meningitis(aseptic)
- Meningitis›coxsackievirus
- Meningitis›echovirus
- Meningitis›enteroviral
- Meningitis›in›enterovirus
- Infection, infected, infective›virus, viral NOS›central nervous system›enterovirus NEC›meningitis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A87. If A87.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A87.0
- Is A87.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A87.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A87.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89).