ICD-10-CM Codes Browse (Tabular) Diagnostic External Drug Neoplasm

B50.8 – Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Coding Notes

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Applicable To

Severe or complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria NOS

GEM Conversion to ICD-9 CM

084.8

Fs: 10000 – Blackwater fever

084.9

Fs: 10000 – Other pernicious complications of malaria

MDC / MS-DRG Reference

DRG 867

OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH MCC

DRG 868

OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH CC

DRG 869

OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC

Back Reference of Diagnostic Codes

Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) R50.9

bilious, hemoglobinuric B50.8

blackwater B50.8

hematuric, bilious B50.8

hemoglobinuric (malarial) (bilious) B50.8

West

African B50.8

Hematinuria See also Hemoglobinuria

malarial B50.8

Hematuria R31.9

malarial B50.8

Hemoglobinuria R82.3

malarial B50.8

Malaria, malarial (fever) B54

with

blackwater fever B50.8

hemoglobinuric (bilious) B50.8

hemoglobinuria B50.8

falciparum B50.9

with complications NEC B50.8

severe B50.8

West African fever B50.8

Sibling Codes

B50.0

Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications

B50.9

Plasmodium falciparum malaria, unspecified

Parent Sibling Codes

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Code	Title
A00-B99	Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
B50-B64	Protozoal diseases (B50-B64)
B50	Plasmodium falciparum malaria
B50.8	Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria Applicable to Severe or complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria NOS