A54.0Gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract without periurethral or accessory gland abscess

A54.0 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for gonococcal infection of lower genitourinary tract without periurethral or accessory gland abscess. It belongs to category A54 (gonococcal infection), 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 5 subcodes must be used instead.

Within A54, choose A54.0 (of lower genitourinary tract without periurethral or accessory gland abscess) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: of lower genitourinary tract with periurethral and accessory gland abscess (A54.1), gonococcal pelviperitonitis and other gonococcal genitourinary infection (A54.2), of eye (A54.3), of musculoskeletal system (A54.4), gonococcal pharyngitis (A54.5), of anus and rectum (A54.6), other gonococcal infections (A54.8) and unspecified (A54.9).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: A54.00 (unspecified), A54.01 (unspecified), A54.02 (unspecified), A54.03 (unspecified) and A54.09 (tract).

Don't report A54.0 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: gonococcal infection with genitourinary gland abscess (A54.1) and gonococcal infection with periurethral abscess (A54.1).

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