B60.19 — Other acanthamebic disease
B60.19 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other acanthamebic disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
B60.19 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.
Medicare coverage
B60.19 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A57206Billing and Coding: Lumbar MRI
How B60.19 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 B60.19.
- Acanthamebiasis›other specified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B60.1. If B60.19 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B60.19
- Is B60.19 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B60.19 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B60.19 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Protozoal diseases (B50-B64).