B96.8Other specified bacterial agents as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

B96.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other specified bacterial agents as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere. It belongs to category B96 (other bacterial agents as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere), block B95-B97 (bacterial and viral infectious agents) and chapter 1 (certain infectious and parasitic diseases). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within B96, choose B96.8 (Other specified bacterial agents as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: mycoplasma pneumoniae [M. pneumoniae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.0), Klebsiella pneumoniae [K. pneumoniae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.1), escherichia coli [E. coli ] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.2), hemophilus influenzae [H. influenzae] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.3), proteus (mirabilis) (morganii) as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.4), pseudomonas (aeruginosa) (mallei) (pseudomallei) as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.5), Bacteroides fragilis [B. fragilis] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.6) and Clostridium perfringens [C. perfringens] as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere (B96.7).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: B96.81 (elsewhere), B96.82 (elsewhere), B96.83 (elsewhere) and B96.89 (elsewhere).

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