B02.24 — Postherpetic myelitis
B02.24 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for postherpetic myelitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Herpes zoster myelitis
Risk adjustment
B02.24 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 182 Spinal Cord Disorders/Injuries0.478 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.
Medicare coverage
B02.24 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.
- A56034Billing and Coding: Nerve Blockade for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Neuropathy
- A56607Billing and Coding: Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks (CPNB)
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How B02.24 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 B02.24.
- Myelitis›herpes zoster
- Myelitis›postherpetic
- Herpes, herpesvirus, herpetic›zoster›myelitis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B02.2. If B02.24 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B02.24
- Is B02.24 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B02.24 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B02.24 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).