ICD-10 code for Abortive plague

The ICD-10-CM code for Abortive plague is A20.8 (Other forms of plague).

Within A20, choose A20.8 (Other forms of plague) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: Bubonic plague (A20.0), Cellulocutaneous plague (A20.1), pneumonic plague (A20.2), meningitis (A20.3), Septicemic plague (A20.7) and unspecified (A20.9).

As a secondary diagnosis it is an MCC (major complication or comorbidity), which can move an inpatient stay into the highest-paying "with MCC" MS-DRG of its family, unless the principal diagnosis excludes it.

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.