B67.4
B67.4 — Echinococcus granulosus infection, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
B67.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for echinococcus granulosus infection, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Dog tapeworm (infection)
Risk adjustment
B67.4 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 B67.4 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 B67.4.
- Echinococcus›granulosus
- Infection, infected, infective›Dipylidium caninum
- Infestation›Dipylidium caninum
- Infestation›dog tapeworm
- Infestation›tapeworm›dog
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B67. If B67.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- B67.0Echinococcus granulosus infection of liver
- B67.1Echinococcus granulosus infection of lung
- B67.2Echinococcus granulosus infection of bone
- B67.3Echinococcus granulosus infection, other and multiple sites
- B67.5Echinococcus multilocularis infection of liver
- B67.6Echinococcus multilocularis infection, other and multiple sites
- B67.7Echinococcus multilocularis infection, unspecified
- B67.8Echinococcosis, unspecified, of liver
- B67.9Echinococcosis, other and unspecified
Questions about B67.4
- Is B67.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B67.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B67.4 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Helminthiases (B65-B83).