2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A40

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Streptococcal sepsis

  • A40 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
  • The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM A40 became effective on October 1, 2023.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A40 – other international versions of ICD-10 A40 may differ.

Code First

  • , if applicable, postprocedural sepsis (T81.44-)
  • sepsis due to central venous catheter (T80.211-)
  • streptococcal sepsis during labor (O75.3)
  • streptococcal sepsis following abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O03.37, O03.87, O04.87, O07.37, O08.82)
  • streptococcal sepsis following immunization (T88.0-)
  • streptococcal sepsis following infusion, transfusion or therapeutic injection (T80.22-, T80.29-)

Type 1 Excludes

The following code(s) above A40 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to A40:

  • A00-B99  Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

Code History

  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
  • 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to A40:

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to A40: