B05
B05: Measles
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
B05 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for measles. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- morbilli
Other codes that can never be billed with B05
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- G02Meningitis in other infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere
- G04.01Postinfectious acute disseminated encephalitis and encephalomyelitis (postinfectious ADEM)
- G05Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis in diseases classified elsewhere
- H67Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere
- J17Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere
- A85Other viral encephalitis, not elsewhere classified
- A87Viral meningitis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead B05
7 child codes. Green means billable.