B54
Unspecified malaria
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 7 never code together
A00-B99chapter
Excludes1
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes2
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)Z22.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)O98.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)P35-P39
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)J00-J22
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 2
Index entries leading here 7
- Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound) D64.9
- Chill (s) R68.83
- congestive in malarial regions B54
- Malaria, malarial (fever) B54
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Splenomegaly, splenomegalia (Bengal) (cryptogenic) (idiopathic) (tropical) R16.1
- malarial B54
- Splenitis (interstitial) (malignant) (nonspecific) D73.89
- malarial B54
- Remittent fever (malarial) B54
Medications 5
67 Malaria drugs 41 Malaria, Falciparum drugs 10 Malaria, Vivax drugs 4 Malaria, Avian drugs 1 Malaria, Cerebral drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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