G00.9Billable
Bacterial meningitis, unspecified
Chapter 6: Diseases of the nervous system
Inclusion Terms
4 items
Inclusion Terms
- •Meningitis due to gram-negative bacteria, unspecified
- •Purulent meningitis NOS
- •Pyogenic meningitis NOS
- •Suppurative meningitis NOS
Billable Code
G00.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
4 items
Includes
From G00:
- •bacterial arachnoiditis
- •bacterial leptomeningitis
- •bacterial meningitis
- •bacterial pachymeningitis
Excludes2
8 items
Excludes2
From G00-G99:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- •endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- •injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- •neoplasms (C00-D49)
- •symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)