Diagnosis Code

A05.9 BACTERIAL FOODBORNE INTOXICATION, UNSPECIFIED


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: A05.9

Short Description: Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified

Long Description: Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified

The code A05.9 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00–B99)
    • Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09)
      • Oth bacterial foodborne intoxications, NEC (A05)
        • A05.9 Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Bacterial food poisoning
  • Enterotoxemia
  • Food poisoning
  • Food-borne gastroenteritis
  • Infective food poisoning

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code A05.9 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Esophagitis, Gastroenteritis And Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders With Mcc (391)
  • Esophagitis, Gastroenteritis And Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders Without Mcc (392)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
A05.9 Right Arrow 005.9 Food poisoning NOS

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
A05 Other bacterial foodborne intoxications, not elsewhere classified
A05.0 Foodborne staphylococcal intoxication
A05.1 Botulism food poisoning
A05.2 Foodborne Clostridium perfringens [Clostridium welchii] intoxication
A05.3 Foodborne Vibrio parahaemolyticus intoxication
A05.4 Foodborne Bacillus cereus intoxication
A05.5 Foodborne Vibrio vulnificus intoxication
A05.8 Other specified bacterial foodborne intoxications


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023