A49.02Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site

A49.02 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site. It belongs to category A49 (bacterial infection of unspecified site), block A30-A49 (other bacterial diseases) and chapter 1 (certain infectious and parasitic diseases). It is billable, so it can be reported on its own for dates of service from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.

Within A49.0, choose A49.02 (resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site (A49.01).

It is not a CC or MCC, so as a secondary diagnosis it doesn't change the MS-DRG severity level.

In MS-DRG v44.0, it is part of the grouping logic for DRG 867 (Other Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses with MCC, relative weight 2.1859), DRG 868 (Other Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses with CC, relative weight 1.0235) and DRG 869 (Other Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses without CC/MCC, relative weight 0.6787), in MDC 18 (Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Systemic or Unspecified Sites), as a principal or secondary diagnosis. The DRG a claim lands in depends on the principal diagnosis, procedures and any CC/MCC secondary diagnoses.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.

Before ICD-10, this condition was coded in ICD-9-CM as 041.12 (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in conditions classified elsewhere and of unspecified site).