Is B06.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. B06.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does B06.81 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).

What cannot be coded together with B06.81?

B06.81 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above B06.81 (B06) and apply to it just the same.

B06.81

B06.81 — Rubella pneumonia

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

B06.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for rubella pneumonia. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above B06.81

These are not written on B06.81, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing B06.81 with anything listed here is a denial.

Written on B06 — Rubella [German measles]

congenital rubella (P35.0)

Other codes that can never be billed with B06.81

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at B06.81. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading B06.81 alone.

J17Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere

Risk adjustment

B06.81 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 B06.81 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 B06.81.

Pneumonia›in›rubella

Code history

B06.81 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share B06.8. If B06.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about B06.81

Is B06.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. B06.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does B06.81 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).
What cannot be coded together with B06.81?: B06.81 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above B06.81 (B06) and apply to it just the same.