B00.9 — Herpesviral infection, unspecified
B00.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for herpesviral infection, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Herpes simplex infection NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with B00.9
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at B00.9. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading B00.9 alone.
- B34Viral infection of unspecified site
Risk adjustment
B00.9 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 B00.9 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 B00.9.
- Herpes, herpesvirus, herpetic
- Herpes, herpesvirus, herpetic›human
- Herpes, herpesvirus, herpetic›simplex
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B00. If B00.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B00.9
- Is B00.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B00.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B00.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions (B00-B09).