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ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A15.6

Effective Date: 10/01/2015 To 09/30/2025

Tuberculous pleurisy

CMS-HCC-V24 CMS-HCC-V28 RxHCC Age Gender Maternity Acute or Chronic MCC
-- -- -- -- -- -- Acute No
Applicable To for A15.6:
  • Tuberculosis of pleura Tuberculous empyema

Excludes-1 for A15.6:
  • primary respiratory tuberculosis (A15.7)

Back-references to A15.6
  • Adhesions, adhesive(postinfective) K66.0
    • pleura, pleuritic J94.8
      • tuberculous NEC A15.6
    • Effusion
      • pleura, pleurisy, pleuritic, pleuropericardial J90
        • tuberculous NEC A15.6
      • Empyema(acute) (chest) (double) (pleura) (supradiaphragmatic) (thorax) J86.9
        • tuberculous A15.6
        • Fistula(cutaneous) L98.8
          • pleura, pleural, pleurocutaneous, pleuroperitoneal J86.0
            • tuberculous NEC A15.6
          • Hemothorax(bacterial) (nontuberculous) J94.2
            • tuberculous NEC A15.6
            • Hydropneumothorax J94.8
              • tuberculous NEC A15.6
              • Hydrothorax(double) (pleura) J94.8
                • tuberculous NEC(non primary) A15.6
                • Pleurisy(acute) (adhesive) (chronic) (costal) (diaphragmatic) (double) (dry) (fibrinous) (fibrous) (interlobar) (latent) (plastic) (primary) (residual) (sicca) (sterile) (subacute) (unresolved) R09.1
                  • tuberculous(with effusion) (non primary) A15.6
                    • with
                      • effusion J90
                        • tuberculous(non primary) A15.6
                    • Pyopneumothorax(infective) J86.9
                      • tuberculous NEC A15.6
                      • Pyothorax J86.9
                        • tuberculous NEC A15.6
                        • Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous(calcification) (calcified) (caseous) (chromogenic acid-fast bacilli) (degeneration) (fibrocaseous) (fistula) (interstitial) (isolated circumscribed lesions) (necrosis) (parenchymatous) (ulcerative) A15.9
                          • bronchopleural A15.6
                            • empyema A15.6
                              • hemothorax A15.6
                                • hydropneumothorax A15.6
                                  • hydrothorax A15.6
                                    • pleura, pleural, pleurisy, pleuritis(fibrinous) (obliterative) (purulent) (simple plastic) (with effusion) A15.6
                                      • pyopneumothorax A15.6
                                        • pyothorax A15.6
                                        • Related Medications for A15.6
                                          • medium chain triglycerides

                                          Chapter, Section and Diagnosis Prefix for A15.6
                                            A00-B99 :

                                            Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

                                            A15-A19 :

                                            Tuberculosis

                                            A15 :

                                            Respiratory tuberculosis