B15
B15 — Acute hepatitis A
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
B15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute hepatitis a. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with B15
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at B15. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading B15 alone.
Risk adjustment
B15 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.
Code to one of these instead B15
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about B15
- Is B15 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. B15 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does B15 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Viral hepatitis (B15-B19).