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A19.8

Billable

Other miliary tuberculosis

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

This code describes a severe form of tuberculosis where the infection has spread throughout the body, affecting multiple organs and appearing as tiny millet-seed-like lesions (miliary pattern). It represents a disseminated tuberculosis infection that is not specified as acute or chronic.

Coding Tips

  • •Verify the documentation specifies miliary tuberculosis and confirm it is not acute miliary TB (A19.0) or chronic miliary TB (A19.1) before assigning this 'other' code
  • •This code requires a secondary code to identify the site of tuberculosis infection (such as TB of lungs, meninges, or other organs) when documented

Code Hierarchy

└A19Miliary tuberculosis└A19.8Other miliary tuberculosis
└A19.8Other miliary tuberculosis

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