ICD-10-CM · Chapter 1 · A00–B99
A50.45
Juvenile general paresis
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Quick facts
- Code
- A50.45
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 1 — Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
- Category
- A50 — Congenital syphilis
- Specificity
- 5 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM A50.45 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of juvenile general paresis. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in A50
- A50Congenital syphilis
- A50.0Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.01Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
- A50.02Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy
- A50.03Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis
- A50.04Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia
- A50.05Early congenital syphilitic rhinitis
- A50.06Early cutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.07Early mucocutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.08Early visceral congenital syphilis
- A50.09Other early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.1Early congenital syphilis, latent
- A50.2Early congenital syphilis, unspecified
- A50.3Late congenital syphilitic oculopathy
- A50.30Late congenital syphilitic oculopathy, unspecified
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