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ICD-10 Code A54.83: Gonococcal heart infection

A54.83 is a billable ICD-10 diagnosis code used to classify Gonococcal heart infection in medical records and claims. You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records. ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

What is this code?

ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

đź“‹Clinical overview

This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes gonococcal infection. The most accurate code depends on whether the documented gonococcal disease involves the lower or upper genitourinary tract, eye, musculoskeletal tissue, anus or rectum, heart, bloodstream, or another specified site.

When is it used?

  • May be used when a clinician documents gonococcal heart infection in a patient's medical record.
  • May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
  • This code can be used as a clinically usable diagnosis entry in standardized coding workflows.

What it does not mean

  • A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
  • A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.

đź©şClinical context

When commonly used
  • Primary-care, urgent-care, emergency, infectious-disease, sexual-health, and follow-up documentation where gonococcal infection affects diagnosis, treatment planning, or partner-management counseling.
  • Coding and utilization-review workflows where the chart identifies the exact gonococcal disease site or a more invasive manifestation such as cardiac involvement or sepsis.
Common management context
  • Gonococcal infection follow-up often includes symptom review, specimen testing context, antimicrobial treatment planning, partner-management counseling, and screening for coinfections or complications.
  • Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies the exact anatomic site, localized versus disseminated disease, abscess formation, ocular or musculoskeletal involvement, or systemic infection.
  • Specialist context already linked on this page includes Infectious Disease Specialist, General Physician, ENT Specialist, Cardiologist.

🔍Key distinctions

Important notes
  • This ICD-10 family captures gonococcal infection across multiple anatomic sites, and the documented site or invasive manifestation is what usually drives final code specificity.
  • Localized genitourinary disease, ocular disease, musculoskeletal disease, anorectal disease, cardiac involvement, sepsis, and unspecified gonococcal infection are coded separately from one another when the chart names the manifestation more clearly.
  • Gonococcal heart infection is coded separately from more localized genitourinary or ocular disease because cardiac involvement reflects a more invasive gonococcal manifestation.
  • Documentation that describes gonococcal infection is coded differently from chlamydial infection, nongonococcal urethritis, or other sexually transmitted infections when the organism or site is documented more clearly.
Related codes to consider
A54.81Gonococcal meningitis
Related gonococcal ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies lower-genitourinary, ocular, musculoskeletal, anorectal, cardiac, septic, or other disseminated involvement.
A54.82Gonococcal brain abscess
Related gonococcal ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies lower-genitourinary, ocular, musculoskeletal, anorectal, cardiac, septic, or other disseminated involvement.
A54.84Gonococcal pneumonia
Related gonococcal ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies lower-genitourinary, ocular, musculoskeletal, anorectal, cardiac, septic, or other disseminated involvement.
A54.85Gonococcal peritonitis
Related gonococcal ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies lower-genitourinary, ocular, musculoskeletal, anorectal, cardiac, septic, or other disseminated involvement.

Code hierarchy

chapter
1Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
block
A50-A64Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
category
A54Gonococcal infection
category
A54.8Other gonococcal infections
currentA54.8

Official coding notes

Inclusion terms
  • Gonococcal endocarditis
  • Gonococcal myocarditis
  • Gonococcal pericarditis

Where you may see this code

You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records.

Related specialists

Infectious Disease SpecialistGeneral PhysicianENT SpecialistCardiologist

Coverage-related procedures and services

CPT 93325high
DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY COLOR FLOW VELOCITY MAPPING (LIST SEPARATELY IN ADDITION TO CODES FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY)
Source: CMS coverage guidance
CPT 93320high
DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, PULSED WAVE AND/OR CONTINUOUS WAVE WITH SPECTRAL DISPLAY (LIST SEPARATELY IN ADDITION TO CODES FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGING); COMPLETE
Source: CMS coverage guidance
CPT 93321high
DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, PULSED WAVE AND/OR CONTINUOUS WAVE WITH SPECTRAL DISPLAY (LIST SEPARATELY IN ADDITION TO CODES FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGING); FOLLOW-UP OR LIMITED STUDY (LIST SEPARATELY IN ADDITION TO CODES FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGING)
Source: CMS coverage guidance
CPT 93306high
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSTHORACIC, REAL-TIME WITH IMAGE DOCUMENTATION (2D), INCLUDES M-MODE RECORDING, WHEN PERFORMED, COMPLETE, WITH SPECTRAL DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, AND WITH COLOR FLOW DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Source: CMS coverage guidance
CPT 93307high
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSTHORACIC, REAL-TIME WITH IMAGE DOCUMENTATION (2D), INCLUDES M-MODE RECORDING, WHEN PERFORMED, COMPLETE, WITHOUT SPECTRAL OR COLOR DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Source: CMS coverage guidance
CPT 93308high
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSTHORACIC, REAL-TIME WITH IMAGE DOCUMENTATION (2D), INCLUDES M-MODE RECORDING, WHEN PERFORMED, FOLLOW-UP OR LIMITED STUDY
Source: CMS coverage guidance

Coding guidelines

Common synonyms

Gonococcal heart infection

Frequently asked questions

Code details

CodeA54.83
SystemICD10
Display nameGonococcal heart infection
ChapterCertain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
BlockInfections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission

Flags

BillableYes
Valid clinical useYes

Source

SourceICD-10
Version2026-annual
Releaseannual
Year2026

Index terms

Matched terms
Disease, diseasedEndocarditis(chronic) (marantic) (nonbacterial) (thrombotic) (valvular)Gonococcus, gonococcal(disease) (infection)Gonococcus, gonococcal(disease) (infection)Myocarditis(with arteriosclerosis)(chronic)(fibroid) (interstitial) (old) (progressive) (senile)Pericarditis(with decompensation) (with effusion)

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