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A02.24 ICD-10-CM Code: Salmonella osteomyelitis

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
1 inclusion term
Risk adjustment
CMS-HCC V28: 1 category · CMS-HCC V22 category 39

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 456 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITH MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 457 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITH CC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 458 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 539 — OSTEOMYELITIS WITH MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 540 — OSTEOMYELITIS WITH CC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 541 — OSTEOMYELITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 974 — HIV WITH MAJOR RELATED CONDITION WITH MCC (MDC 25)
  • MS-DRG 975 — HIV WITH MAJOR RELATED CONDITION WITH CC (MDC 25)
  • MS-DRG 976 — HIV WITH MAJOR RELATED CONDITION WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 25)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Risk Adjustment (CMS-HCC)

Payment categories this diagnosis maps to under CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2026.

  • HCC 92 — Bone/Joint/Muscle/Severe Soft Tissue Infections/Necrosis

Other models: CMS-HCC V22 HCC 39

Risk scores depend on the enrollee's full accepted diagnosis set and segment; a category mapping alone does not determine payment.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for A02.24 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on A02.24 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • infection or foodborne intoxication due to any Salmonella species other than S. typhi and S. paratyphi

Source: inherited from A02

Code Overview

Salmonella osteomyelitis is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (A02.24).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2026). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name A02.24 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 3 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: A05 — Other bacterial foodborne intoxications, not elsewhere classified (via A02.-), M86 — Osteomyelitis, M90 — Osteopathies in diseases classified elsewhere.

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

Referenced by 6 Excludes2 notes: P35 — Congenital viral diseases (via A02.-), P35-P39 — Infections specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39) (via A02.-), P36 — Bacterial sepsis of newborn (via A02.-), P37 — Other congenital infectious and parasitic diseases (via A02.-), P38 — Omphalitis of newborn (via A02.-), P39 — Other infections specific to the perinatal period (via A02.-).

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

Referenced by 1 Code First instruction: M49 — Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere (via A02.-).

Each of these codes carries a Code First note naming this condition — when that code is reported, THIS code is sequenced first, ahead of it.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: CC — Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 201 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list. Does not count toward severity when the stay groups to DRGs 974-976 (HIV with Major Related Condition).

Named in the grouper logic of 9 MS-DRGs: DRG 456 (MDC 08), DRG 457 (MDC 08), DRG 458 (MDC 08), DRG 539 (MDC 08), DRG 540 (MDC 08), DRG 541 (MDC 08), DRG 974 (MDC 25), DRG 975 (MDC 25), DRG 976 (MDC 25).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):MUS002 — Osteomyelitis (default); INF003 — Bacterial infections.

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical process (MS-DRG)

Acts as CC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

A18.03 — Tuberculosis of other bones, A18.09 — Other musculoskeletal tuberculosis, M46.20 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, site unspecified, M46.21 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, occipito-atlanto-axial region, M46.22 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervical region, M46.23 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervicothoracic region, M46.24 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracic region, M46.25 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracolumbar region, M46.26 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbar region, M46.27 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbosacral region, M46.28 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, sacral and sacrococcygeal region, M46.30 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), site unspecified, M46.31 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), occipito-atlanto-axial region, M46.32 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), cervical region, M46.33 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), cervicothoracic region, M46.34 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), thoracic region, M46.35 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), thoracolumbar region, M46.36 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), lumbar region, M46.37 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), lumbosacral region, M46.38 — Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), sacral and sacrococcygeal region, +180 more

Same CMS-HCC risk category (V28)

CMS maps these diagnoses to the same Hierarchical Condition Category (Bone/Joint/Muscle/Severe Soft Tissue Infections/Necrosis) for risk-adjusted payment.

A01.04 — Typhoid arthritis, A01.05 — Typhoid osteomyelitis, A02.23 — Salmonella arthritis, A39.83 — Meningococcal arthritis, A39.84 — Postmeningococcal arthritis, A50.55 — Late congenital syphilitic arthropathy, A54.40 — Gonococcal infection of musculoskeletal system, unspecified, A54.41 — Gonococcal spondylopathy, A54.42 — Gonococcal arthritis, A54.43 — Gonococcal osteomyelitis, A54.49 — Gonococcal infection of other musculoskeletal tissue, A66.6 — Bone and joint lesions of yaws, A69.23 — Arthritis due to Lyme disease, B06.82 — Rubella arthritis, B26.85 — Mumps arthritis, B42.82 — Sporotrichosis arthritis, M00.00 — Staphylococcal arthritis, unspecified joint, M00.011 — Staphylococcal arthritis, right shoulder, M00.012 — Staphylococcal arthritis, left shoulder, M00.019 — Staphylococcal arthritis, unspecified shoulder, +588 more

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical categories (Osteomyelitis, Bacterial infections).

A01.05 — Typhoid osteomyelitis, A54.43 — Gonococcal osteomyelitis, H05.021 — Osteomyelitis of right orbit, H05.022 — Osteomyelitis of left orbit, H05.023 — Osteomyelitis of bilateral orbits, H05.029 — Osteomyelitis of unspecified orbit, M46.20 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, site unspecified, M46.21 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, occipito-atlanto-axial region, M46.22 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervical region, M46.23 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervicothoracic region, M46.24 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracic region, M46.25 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracolumbar region, M46.26 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbar region, M46.27 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbosacral region, M46.28 — Osteomyelitis of vertebra, sacral and sacrococcygeal region, M86.00 — Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, unspecified site, M86.011 — Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, right shoulder, M86.012 — Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, left shoulder, M86.019 — Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, unspecified shoulder, M86.021 — Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, right humerus, +572 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Intoxication”, “Osteomyelitis”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

A01.05 — Typhoid osteomyelitis (typhoid), A05.0 — Foodborne staphylococcal intoxication (foodborne, due to, Staphylococcus), A05.1 — Botulism food poisoning (foodborne, classical), A05.2 — Foodborne Clostridium perfringens [Clostridium welchii] intoxication (foodborne, due to, Clostridium, welchii), A05.3 — Foodborne Vibrio parahaemolyticus intoxication (foodborne, due to, Vibrio, parahaemolyticus), A05.4 — Foodborne Bacillus cereus intoxication (foodborne, due to, Bacillus cereus), A05.5 — Foodborne Vibrio vulnificus intoxication (foodborne, due to, Vibrio, vulnificus), A05.8 — Other specified bacterial foodborne intoxications (foodborne, due to, bacterium, specified NEC), A05.9 — Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified (foodborne), A50.02 — Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy (syphilitic, congenital), A52.77 — Syphilis of bone and joint (syphilitic), B67.2 — Echinococcus granulosus infection of bone (echinococcal), E87.29 — Other acidosis (acid), E87.5 — Hyperkalemia (potassium), E87.79 — Other fluid overload (water), F15.10 — Other stimulant abuse, uncomplicated (amphetamine, stimulant NEC), F15.121 — Other stimulant abuse with intoxication delirium (amphetamine, stimulant NEC, with, intoxication, with, delirium), F15.122 — Other stimulant abuse with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (amphetamine, stimulant NEC, with, intoxication, with, perceptual disturbance), F15.129 — Other stimulant abuse with intoxication, unspecified (amphetamine, stimulant NEC, with, intoxication), F15.180 — Other stimulant abuse with stimulant-induced anxiety disorder (amphetamine, stimulant NEC, with, anxiety disorder), +90 more

Lab tests where this diagnosis supports Medicare coverage (NCD)

Medicare's National Coverage Determination (NCD) program lists this diagnosis as medical justification for these lab tests.

Iron Panel, Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT) Test, Prothrombin Time Test and INR (PT/INR)

Contextual Map

Every relationship of A02.24 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

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Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

Referenced by Code First instructions

Clinical classification (CCSR)

Risk adjustment (CMS-HCC)

  • HCC 92 — Bone/Joint/Muscle/Severe Soft Tissue Infections/Necrosis [CMS-HCC]— CMS-HCC V28 · 2026

MS-DRG Grouper (9)

MDC crossing

  • MDC 08 — Diseases and Disorders of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 18,508 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026
  • MDC 25 — Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections[MDC crossing]: “Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries

  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic), Salmonella (aertrycke) (arizonae) (cholerae-suis) (enteritidis) (gallinarum) (suipestifer) (typhimurium), localized, osteomyelitis[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Intoxication, foodborne, due to, Salmonella, with, localized infection (s), osteomyelitis[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Osteomyelitis (general) (infective) (localized) (neonatal) (purulent) (septic) (staphylococcal) (streptococcal) (suppurative) (with periostitis), Salmonella (arizonae) (cholerae-suis) (enteritidis) (typhimurium)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (12)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Risk adjustment Official source data
2026 Mid-Year Final ICD-10 Mappings + Model Software (cms.gov/files/zip/2026-midyear-final-icd-10-mappings.zip, 2026-midyear-final-model-software.zip) — CMS-HCC V28, PY2026 mid-year final release Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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MedCoder.ai. "A02.24 — Salmonella osteomyelitis." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/a02.24-salmonella-osteomyelitis

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Salmonella osteomyelitis

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to A02.24 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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