Chlamydial lymphogranuloma (venereum)
Billable / specific
A55 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Applicable to
- Climatic or tropical bubo
- Durand-Nicolas-Favre disease
- Esthiomene
- Lymphogranuloma inguinale
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
Also known as
- Climatic or tropical bubo
- Durand-Nicolas-Favre disease
- Esthiomene
- Lymphogranuloma inguinale
- Bubo, climatic
- Bubo, inguinal, climatic
- Bubo, tropical
- Disease, diseased, Durand-Nicholas-Favre
- Disease, diseased, Favre-Durand-Nicolas
- Disease, diseased, Frei's
- Disease, diseased, Nicolas
- Disease, diseased, venereal, fifth
- Disease, diseased, venereal, sixth
- Fifth disease, venereal
- Frei's disease
- Genito-anorectal syndrome
- Infection, infected, infective, Chlamydia, chlamydial, lymphogranuloma
Related codes
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- A51Early syphilisHeader
- A52Late syphilisHeader
- A53Other and unspecified syphilisHeader
- A54Gonococcal infectionHeader
- A56Other sexually transmitted chlamydial diseasesHeader
- A57ChancroidBillable
- A58Granuloma inguinaleBillable
- A59TrichomoniasisHeader
- A60Anogenital herpesviral [herpes simplex] infectionsHeader
- A63Other predominantly sexually transmitted diseases, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- A64Unspecified sexually transmitted diseaseBillable