B67.9
B67.9 — Echinococcosis, other and unspecified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
B67.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for echinococcosis, other and unspecified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
B67.9 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 B67.9
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B67. If B67.9 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
- B67.5Echinococcus multilocularis infection of liver
- B67.6Echinococcus multilocularis infection, other and multiple sites
- B67.7Echinococcus multilocularis infection, unspecified
- B67.8Echinococcosis, unspecified, of liver
Questions about B67.9
- Is B67.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. B67.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does B67.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Helminthiases (B65-B83).