084.6 MALARIA NOS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 084.6

Short Description: Malaria NOS

Long Description: Malaria, unspecified

Code Classification:

  • Infectious and parasitic diseases (001–139)
    • Rickettsioses and other arthropod-borne diseases (080-088)
      • 084 Malaria
        • 084.6 Malaria NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 084.6 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • brass-founders' 985.8
    • dumb 084.6
    • tertian 084.1
  • Anemia 285.9
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • marsh (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • paludal (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Cameroon fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Chill(s) 780.64
    • congestive 780.99
      • in malarial regions 084.6
  • Congestion, congestive
    • chill 780.99
      • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • malaria, malarial (brain) (fever) (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Corsican fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Dumb ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Dysentery, dysenteric (bilious) (catarrhal) (diarrhea) (epidemic) (gangrenous) (hemorrhagic) (infectious) (sporadic) (tropical) (ulcerative) 009.0
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Encephalitis (bacterial) (chronic) (hemorrhagic) (idiopathic) (nonepidemic) (spurious) (subacute) 323.9
    • due to
      • malaria (see also Malaria) 084.6 [323.2]
  • Fever 780.60
    • with chills 780.60
      • in malarial regions (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • and ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • Cameroon (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • congestive
      • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
      • remittent (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • Corsican (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • gastromalarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • intermittent (bilious) (see also Malaria) 084.6
      • hepatic (Charc�t) - see Choledocholithiasis
      • of unknown origin (see also Pyrexia) 780.60
      • pernicious 084.0
    • malaria, malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • marsh (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • miasmatic (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • paludal (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • remittent (bilious) (congestive) (gastric) (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • typhomalarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Hyperpyrexia 780.60
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Malaria, malarial (fever) 084.6
    • algid 084.9
    • any type, with
      • algid malaria 084.9
      • blackwater fever 084.8
      • fever
        • blackwater 084.8
        • hemoglobinuric (bilious) 084.8
      • hemoglobinuria, malarial 084.8
      • hepatitis 084.9 [573.2]
      • nephrosis 084.9 [581.81]
      • pernicious complication NEC 084.9
        • cardiac 084.9
        • cerebral 084.9
    • cardiac 084.9
    • carrier (suspected) of V02.9
    • cerebral 084.9
    • complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or puerperium 647.4
    • congenital 771.2
    • congestion, congestive 084.6
      • brain 084.9
    • continued 084.0
    • estivo-autumnal 084.0
    • falciparum (malignant tertian) 084.0
    • hematinuria 084.8
    • hematuria 084.8
    • hemoglobinuria 084.8
    • hemorrhagic 084.6
    • induced (therapeutically) 084.7
      • accidental - see Malaria, by type
    • liver 084.9 [573.2]
    • malariae (quartan) 084.2
    • malignant (tertian) 084.0
    • mixed infections 084.5
    • monkey 084.4
    • ovale 084.3
    • pernicious, acute 084.0
    • Plasmodium, P.
      • falciparum 084.0
      • malariae 084.2
      • ovale 084.3
      • vivax 084.1
    • quartan 084.2
    • quotidian 084.0
    • recurrent 084.6
      • induced (therapeutically) 084.7
        • accidental - see Malaria, by type
    • remittent 084.6
    • specified types NEC 084.4
    • spleen 084.6
    • subtertian 084.0
    • tertian (benign) 084.1
      • malignant 084.0
    • tropical 084.0
    • typhoid 084.6
    • vivax (benign tertian) 084.1
  • Marsh fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute) (see also Neuritis) 729.2
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Remittent fever (malarial) 084.6
  • Splenitis (interstitial) (malignant) (nonspecific) 289.59
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Splenomegaly 789.2
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Toxemia 799.89
    • malarial NEC (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Typhomalaria (fever) (see also Malaria) 084.6

Crosswalk Information

The code 084.6 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
084.6 Right Arrow B54 Unspecified malaria
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 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-9 Code ICD-9 Description
084.0 Falciparum malaria [malignant tertian]
084.1 Vivax malaria [benign tertian]
084.2 Quartan malaria
084.3 Ovale malaria
084.4 Other malaria
084.5 Mixed malaria
084.7 Induced malaria
084.8 Blackwater fever
084.9 Other pernicious complications of malaria


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