B50
B50 — Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
B50 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for plasmodium falciparum malaria. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- mixed infections of Plasmodium falciparum with any other Plasmodium species
Other codes that can never be billed with B50
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at B50. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading B50 alone.
Risk adjustment
B50 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 B50
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about B50
- Is B50 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. B50 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does B50 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Protozoal diseases (B50-B64).