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A39.84 ICD-10-CM Code: Postmeningococcal arthritis

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

Coding at a Glance

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 548 — SEPTIC ARTHRITIS WITH MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 549 — SEPTIC ARTHRITIS WITH CC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 550 — SEPTIC ARTHRITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 08)
  • MS-DRG 791 — PREMATURITY WITH MAJOR PROBLEMS (MDC 15)
  • MS-DRG 793 — FULL TERM NEONATE WITH MAJOR PROBLEMS (MDC 15)

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.

Code Overview

Postmeningococcal arthritis is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (A39.84).

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 (1)

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 A39.84 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 2 Excludes1 notes: M01 — Direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere, M02 — Postinfective and reactive arthropathies.

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

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 11 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 5 MS-DRGs: DRG 548 (MDC 08), DRG 549 (MDC 08), DRG 550 (MDC 08), DRG 791 (MDC 15), DRG 793 (MDC 15).

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

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):MUS008 — Immune-mediated/reactive arthropathies (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.

A39.83 — Meningococcal arthritis, A39.89 — Other meningococcal infections, A39.9 — Meningococcal infection, unspecified, A49.3 — Mycoplasma infection, unspecified site, A49.8 — Other bacterial infections of unspecified site, A49.9 — Bacterial infection, unspecified, B92 — Sequelae of leprosy, B94.2 — Sequelae of viral hepatitis, B94.8 — Sequelae of other specified infectious and parasitic diseases, B94.9 — Sequelae of unspecified infectious and parasitic disease

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, A02.24 — Salmonella osteomyelitis, A39.83 — Meningococcal 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 (Immune-mediated/reactive arthropathies, Bacterial infections).

M02.10 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified site, M02.111 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right shoulder, M02.112 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left shoulder, M02.119 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified shoulder, M02.121 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right elbow, M02.122 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left elbow, M02.129 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified elbow, M02.131 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right wrist, M02.132 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left wrist, M02.139 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified wrist, M02.141 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right hand, M02.142 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left hand, M02.149 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified hand, M02.151 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right hip, M02.152 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left hip, M02.159 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified hip, M02.161 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right knee, M02.162 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, left knee, M02.169 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, unspecified knee, M02.171 — Postdysenteric arthropathy, right ankle and foot, +476 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

A01.4 — Paratyphoid fever, unspecified (in, paratyphoid fever), A02.23 — Salmonella arthritis (in, Salmonella), A08.8 — Other specified intestinal infections (in, enteritis, infectious NEC, specified organism NEC), A09 — Infectious gastroenteritis and colitis, unspecified (in, enteritis, infectious NEC), A18.01 — Tuberculosis of spine (tuberculous, spine), A18.02 — Tuberculous arthritis of other joints (tuberculous), A24.0 — Glanders (due to or associated with, glanders), A25.1 — Streptobacillosis (epidemic erythema), A30.9 — Leprosy, unspecified (in, leprosy), A31.8 — Other mycobacterial infections (due to or associated with, mycobacteria), A46 — Erysipelas (due to or associated with, erysipelas), A49.9 — Bacterial infection, unspecified (in, bacterial disease), A50.55 — Late congenital syphilitic arthropathy (syphilitic, congenital), A52.16 — Charcôt's arthropathy (tabetic) (syphilitic), A54.42 — Gonococcal arthritis (gonococcal), A69.23 — Arthritis due to Lyme disease (in, Lyme disease), A92.1 — O'nyong-nyong fever (in, O'nyong-nyong), B06.82 — Rubella arthritis (rubella), B26.85 — Mumps arthritis (in, mumps), B34.9 — Viral infection, unspecified (in, viral disease NEC), +193 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of A39.84 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

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

MDC crossing

Index entries

  • Arthritis, arthritic (acute) (chronic) (nonpyogenic) (subacute), postmeningococcal[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (17)

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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Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "A39.84 — Postmeningococcal arthritis." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/a39.84-postmeningococcal-arthritis

Change history

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

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 A39.84 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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