B67.5 — Echinococcus multilocularis infection of liver
B67.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for echinococcus multilocularis infection of liver. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
B67.5 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
B67.5 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How B67.5 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 B67.5.
- Echinococcus›liver NOS›multilocularis
- Echinococcus›multilocularis›liver
- Cyst›liver›hydatid›multilocularis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B67. If B67.5 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
- B67.4Echinococcus granulosus infection, unspecified
- 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 B67.5
- Is B67.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B67.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B67.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Helminthiases (B65-B83).