A50.0Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic

A50.0 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for early congenital syphilis, symptomatic. It belongs to category A50 (congenital syphilis), block A50-A64 (infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission) and chapter 1 (certain infectious and parasitic diseases). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 9 subcodes must be used instead.

Within A50 (congenital syphilis), A50.0 is specifically for early congenital syphilis, symptomatic. Related codes cover early congenital syphilis, latent (A50.1), early congenital syphilis, unspecified (A50.2), late congenital syphilitic oculopathy (A50.3), late congenital neurosyphilis [juvenile neurosyphilis] (A50.4), other late congenital syphilis, symptomatic (A50.5), late congenital syphilis, latent (A50.6), late congenital syphilis, unspecified (A50.7) and unspecified (A50.9).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: A50.01 (oculopathy), A50.02 (osteochondropathy), A50.03 (pharyngitis), A50.04 (pneumonia), A50.05 (rhinitis), A50.06 (syphilis), A50.07 (syphilis), A50.08 (syphilis) and 1 more.

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