ICD-10-CM · Chapter 1 · A00–B99
A52.03
Syphilitic endocarditis
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Quick facts
- Code
- A52.03
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 1 — Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
- Category
- A52 — Late syphilis
- Specificity
- 5 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM A52.03 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of syphilitic endocarditis. 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 A52
- A52Late syphilis
- A52.0Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular syphilis
- A52.00Cardiovascular syphilis, unspecified
- A52.01Syphilitic aneurysm of aorta
- A52.02Syphilitic aortitis
- A52.04Syphilitic cerebral arteritis
- A52.05Other cerebrovascular syphilis
- A52.06Other syphilitic heart involvement
- A52.09Other cardiovascular syphilis
- A52.1Symptomatic neurosyphilis
- A52.10Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified
- A52.11Tabes dorsalis
- A52.12Other cerebrospinal syphilis
- A52.13Late syphilitic meningitis
- A52.14Late syphilitic encephalitis
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