ICD-10-CM · Chapter 1 · A00–B99
A80.0
Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associated
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Quick facts
- Code
- A80.0
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 1 — Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
- Category
- A80 — Acute poliomyelitis
- Specificity
- 4 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM A80.0 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of acute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associated. 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 A80
- A80Acute poliomyelitis
- A80.1Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, imported
- A80.2Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, indigenous
- A80.3Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, other and unspecified
- A80.30Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, unspecified
- A80.39Other acute paralytic poliomyelitis
- A80.4Acute nonparalytic poliomyelitis
- A80.9Acute poliomyelitis, unspecified
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