B55.0
B55.0: Visceral leishmaniasis
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
B55.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for visceral leishmaniasis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check B55.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Kala-azar
- Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Assam fever
- Burdwan fever
- Dumdum fever
- Kala-azar
- Ponos
- Sahib disease
- Sirkari's disease
- Sudanese kala-azar
- Disease, diseased›Sirkari's
- Dysentery, dysenteric›leishmanial
- Fever›Assam
- Fever›Burdwan
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.