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B26.81 ICD-10-CM Code: Mumps hepatitis

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
2 inclusion terms

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 441 — DISORDERS OF LIVER EXCEPT MALIGNANCY, CIRRHOSIS OR ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITH MCC (MDC 07)
  • MS-DRG 442 — DISORDERS OF LIVER EXCEPT MALIGNANCY, CIRRHOSIS OR ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITH CC (MDC 07)
  • MS-DRG 443 — DISORDERS OF LIVER EXCEPT MALIGNANCY, CIRRHOSIS OR ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 07)
  • 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.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for B26.81 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 B26.81 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.

  • epidemic parotitis
  • infectious parotitis

Source: inherited from B26

Code Overview

Mumps hepatitis is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (B26.81).

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 (2)

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 B26.81 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: K11.2 — Sialoadenitis (via B26.-), K77 — Liver disorders 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 1 Code First instruction: H67 — Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere (via B26.-).

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 23 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 5 MS-DRGs: DRG 441 (MDC 07), DRG 442 (MDC 07), DRG 443 (MDC 07), 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):INF007 — Hepatitis (default); INF008 — Viral infection.

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.

A74.81 — Chlamydial peritonitis, A74.89 — Other chlamydial diseases, A74.9 — Chlamydial infection, unspecified, A96.2 — Lassa fever, A98.3 — Marburg virus disease, A98.4 — Ebola virus disease, B26.82 — Mumps myocarditis, B26.83 — Mumps nephritis, B26.85 — Mumps arthritis, B26.89 — Other mumps complications, B26.9 — Mumps without complication, B33.24 — Viral cardiomyopathy, B33.4 — Hantavirus (cardio)-pulmonary syndrome [HPS] [HCPS], B33.8 — Other specified viral diseases, B34.1 — Enterovirus infection, unspecified, B34.2 — Coronavirus infection, unspecified, B34.4 — Papovavirus infection, unspecified, B34.8 — Other viral infections of unspecified site, B92 — Sequelae of leprosy, B94.2 — Sequelae of viral hepatitis, +2 more

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical categories (Hepatitis, Viral infection).

B18.2 — Chronic viral hepatitis C, B18.8 — Other chronic viral hepatitis, B18.9 — Chronic viral hepatitis, unspecified, B19.0 — Unspecified viral hepatitis with hepatic coma, B19.10 — Unspecified viral hepatitis B without hepatic coma, B19.11 — Unspecified viral hepatitis B with hepatic coma, B19.20 — Unspecified viral hepatitis C without hepatic coma, B19.21 — Unspecified viral hepatitis C with hepatic coma, B19.9 — Unspecified viral hepatitis without hepatic coma, B25.1 — Cytomegaloviral hepatitis, B58.1 — Toxoplasma hepatitis, K70.10 — Alcoholic hepatitis without ascites, K70.11 — Alcoholic hepatitis with ascites, O98.411 — Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, first trimester, O98.412 — Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, second trimester, O98.413 — Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, third trimester, O98.419 — Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester, O98.42 — Viral hepatitis complicating childbirth, O98.43 — Viral hepatitis complicating the puerperium, P35.3 — Congenital viral hepatitis, +300 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

B18.2 — Chronic viral hepatitis C (C, chronic), B18.8 — Other chronic viral hepatitis (viral, virus, chronic, specified NEC), B18.9 — Chronic viral hepatitis, unspecified (viral, virus, chronic), B19.0 — Unspecified viral hepatitis with hepatic coma (viral, virus, with hepatic coma), B19.10 — Unspecified viral hepatitis B without hepatic coma (B), B19.11 — Unspecified viral hepatitis B with hepatic coma (B, with), B19.20 — Unspecified viral hepatitis C without hepatic coma (C), B19.21 — Unspecified viral hepatitis C with hepatic coma (C, with hepatic coma), B19.9 — Unspecified viral hepatitis without hepatic coma (viral, virus), B25.1 — Cytomegaloviral hepatitis (cytomegaloviral), B33.8 — Other specified viral diseases (viral, virus, coxsackie), B58.1 — Toxoplasma hepatitis (in, toxoplasmosis), K70.10 — Alcoholic hepatitis without ascites (alcoholic), K70.11 — Alcoholic hepatitis with ascites (alcoholic, with ascites), K71.6 — Toxic liver disease with hepatitis, not elsewhere classified (toxic), K72.0 — Acute and subacute hepatic failure (acute, non-viral), K72.00 — Acute and subacute hepatic failure without coma (shock), K72.01 — Acute and subacute hepatic failure with coma (acute, with coma), K72.90 — Hepatic failure, unspecified without coma (malignant NEC), K72.91 — Hepatic failure, unspecified with coma (malignant NEC, with coma), +35 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.

Gamma-glutamyl Transferase (GGT) Test

Contextual Map

Every relationship of B26.81 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.

Run B26.81 with these 3 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Code First instructions

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 07 — Diseases and Disorders of the Hepatobiliary System and Pancreas[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Hepatobiliary System and Pancreas — 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. 2,481 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026
  • MDC 15 — Newborns and Other Neonates with Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period[MDC crossing]: “Newborns and Other Neonates with Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period — 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

  • Hepatitis, in (due to), mumps[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Mumps, hepatitis[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
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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Change history

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

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 B26.81 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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