G00.3

G00.3: Staphylococcal meningitis

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

G00.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for staphylococcal meningitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check G00.3 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

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Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code to further identify organism (B95.61-B95.8)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G00.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on G00: Bacterial meningitis, not elsewhere classified

bacterial meningoencephalitis (G04.2)
bacterial meningomyelitis (G04.2)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

G00.3 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A56799Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
A57206Billing and Coding: Lumbar MRI

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Meningitis›staphylococcal
Meningitis›bacterial›staphylococcal

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.