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B60.03 ICD-10-CM Code: Babesiosis due to Babesia divergens

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

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 867 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH MCC (MDC 18)
  • MS-DRG 868 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH CC (MDC 18)
  • MS-DRG 869 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 18)

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.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Babesiosis due to Babesia divergens is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (B60.03).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for B60.03 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Babesiosis due to Babesia MO-1
  • Infection due to B. divergens and B. divergens-like strains

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on B60.03 name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

  • FY2021 — 2020-10-01
    Added to the code set
    Babesiosis due to Babesia divergens
    FY2021 changes

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.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of B60.03 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.

Hierarchy

  • A00-B99 — Chapter 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (A00-B99) (A00-B99) [Hierarchy]

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • INF009 — Parasitic, other specified and unspecified infections [CCSR]

Potential MS-DRG

  • CC — Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (CC).”
  • DRG 867 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH MCC [MS-DRG]: “OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH MCC (MDC 18)”
  • DRG 868 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH CC [MS-DRG]: “OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITH CC (MDC 18)”
  • DRG 869 — OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC [MS-DRG]: “OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 18)”

MDC crossing · procedures

  • MDC 18 — Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Systemic or Unspecified Sites [MDC crossing]: “Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Systemic or Unspecified Sites — 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.”
  • 5A1955Z — Respiratory Ventilation, Greater than 96 Consecutive Hours [Same-MDC procedure]: “Respiratory Ventilation, Greater than 96 Consecutive Hours — grouped in MDC 18, the procedure side of this code's crossing.” · check together

Index entries

  • Babesiosis, due to, Babesia, divergens[Index term]
  • Babesiosis, due to, Babesia, MO-1[Index term]
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic), due to or resulting from, Babesia, divergensstrain (-like)[Index term]

Nearest codes (14)

  • B60 — Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified [Sibling]
  • B60.0 — Babesiosis [Sibling]
  • B60.00 — Babesiosis, unspecified [Sibling]
  • B60.01 — Babesiosis due to Babesia microti [Sibling]
  • B60.02 — Babesiosis due to Babesia duncani [Sibling]
  • B60.09 — Other babesiosis [Sibling]
  • B60.1 — Acanthamebiasis [Sibling]
  • B60.10 — Acanthamebiasis, unspecified [Sibling]
  • and 6 more

Change history

  • FY2021 — Added to the code set [Change history]

Relationships & Classification

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):INF009 — Parasitic, other specified and unspecified infections (default).

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

Potential MS-DRG Relationships (FY2026)

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 46 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 3 MS-DRGs: DRG 867 (MDC 18), DRG 868 (MDC 18), DRG 869 (MDC 18).

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

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to B60.03 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • B60 — Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified
  • B60.0 — Babesiosis
  • B60.00 — Babesiosis, unspecified
  • B60.01 — Babesiosis due to Babesia microti
  • B60.02 — Babesiosis due to Babesia duncani
  • B60.09 — Other babesiosis
  • B60.1 — Acanthamebiasis
  • B60.10 — Acanthamebiasis, unspecified
  • B60.11 — Meningoencephalitis due to Acanthamoeba (culbertsoni)
  • B60.12 — Conjunctivitis due to Acanthamoeba

View all codes in the B60 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Babesiosis, due to, Babesia, divergens
  • Babesiosis, due to, Babesia, MO-1
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic), due to or resulting from, Babesia, divergensstrain (-like)