G00.8
Other bacterial meningitis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
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 8
G00code
Includes
- bacterial arachnoiditis
- bacterial leptomeningitis
- bacterial meningitis
- bacterial pachymeningitis
Index entries leading here 1
- Meningitis (basal) (basic) (brain) (cerebral) (cervical) (congestive) (diffuse) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (membranous) (metastatic) (nonspecific) (pontine) (progressive) (simple) (spinal) (subacute) (sympathetic) (toxic) G03.9
- bacterial G00.9
- Escherichia coli (E. coli) G00.8
- fibrinopurulent G00.9
- specified organism NEC G00.8
- Friedländer (bacillus) G00.8
- Klebsiella G00.8
- Mima polymorpha G00.8
- purulent G00.9
- specified organism NEC G00.8
- pyogenic G00.9
- specified organism NEC G00.8
- septic G00.9
- specified organism NEC G00.8
- specified organism NEC G00.8
- suppurative G00.9
- specified organism NEC G00.8
Alongside this code 5 same parent — G00
Medications 1
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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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.