ICD-10 Code B67.39: Echinococcus granulosus infection, other sites
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 echinococcosis, also called hydatid or echinococcus infection. The most accurate code depends on whether the chart identifies Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis, or an unspecified form, along with the affected organ site.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents echinococcus granulosus infection, other sites 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
- Infectious-disease, inpatient, hepatobiliary, pulmonary, surgical, and follow-up documentation where hydatid or echinococcus infection is documented and the parasite type or organ site changes code specificity.
- Coding and utilization-review workflows where the chart clearly identifies liver, lung, bone, multiple-site, or other-site echinococcosis and whether the infection is granulosus, multilocularis, or unspecified.
- Echinococcosis follow-up often includes imaging review, organ-specific assessment, infectious-disease planning, and documentation of whether the disease involves one site or multiple sites.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies the parasite type, affected organ, cyst location, or multisite involvement rather than using a broader unspecified echinococcosis label.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Infectious Disease Specialist, General Physician.
🔍Key distinctions
- This ICD-10 family covers echinococcosis across different parasite types and organ sites and is more specific than a broad parasitic-infection label.
- Both parasite type and organ-site detail matter here, because granulosus, multilocularis, liver, lung, bone, multiple-site, and unspecified branches are coded separately.
- Echinococcus granulosus infection is coded separately from Echinococcus multilocularis infection and from unspecified echinococcosis because the documented parasite type changes code specificity.
- This title reflects another specified echinococcosis site that does not fit the named liver, lung, bone, or multiple-site branches.
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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.
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