Loiasis
Billable / specific
B74.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Calabar swelling
- Eyeworm disease of Africa
- Loa loa infection
Includes (from B74)
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-) (from B74)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters (from B74)
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-) (from B74)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39) (from B74)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22) (from B74)
- onchocerciasis (B73) (from B74)
- tropical (pulmonary) eosinophilia NOS (J82.89) (from B74)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Calabar swelling
- Eyeworm disease of Africa
- Loa loa infection
- Disease, diseased, eyeworm of Africa
- Infection, infected, infective, Loa loa
- Infection, infected, infective, Loa loa, with conjunctival infestation
- Infection, infected, infective, Loa loa, eyelid
- Infestation, eyelid, in loiasis
- Infestation, eyeworm
- Infestation, filarial, due to loa loa
- Infestation, Loa loa
- Infestation, Loa loa, conjunctival
- Infestation, Loa loa, eyelid
- Loa loa
- Swelling, Calabar
Parent code
- B74FilariasisHeader