B95.6
B95.6 — Staphylococcus aureus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
B95.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for staphylococcus aureus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
B95.6 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 B95.6
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B95. If B95.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- B95.0Streptococcus, group A, as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.1Streptococcus, group B, as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.2Enterococcus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.3Streptococcus pneumoniae as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.4Other streptococcus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.5Unspecified streptococcus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.7Other staphylococcus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- B95.8Unspecified staphylococcus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
Questions about B95.6
- Is B95.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. B95.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does B95.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Bacterial and viral infectious agents (B95-B97).