B55.0 Visceral leishmaniasis

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Kala-azar
• Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 867-869 in MDC 18.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 085.0 Visceral [kala-azar] leishmaniasis

Code annotations containing back-references to B55.0

Back-references to B55

• Type 2 Excludes: J82 Pulmonary eosinophilia, not elsewhere classified ("pulmonary eosinophilia due to specified parasitic infection (B50-B83)")

Diagnosis Index entries for B55.0

• Assam fever
• Burdwan fever
• Disease, diseased › Sirkari's
• Dumdum fever
• Dysentery, dysenteric (catarrhal) (diarrhea) (epidemic) (hemorrhagic) (infectious) (sporadic) (tropical) › leishmanial
• Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) › Assam
• Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) › Burdwan
• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) › Leishmania › chagasi
• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) › Leishmania › donovani
• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) › Leishmania › infantum
• Kala-azar
• Leishmaniasis › dermal › post-kala-azar
• Leishmaniasis › infantile
• Leishmaniasis › Mediterranean
• Leishmaniasis › visceral
• Leishmanoid, dermal › post-kala-azar
• Mediterranean › kala-azar
• Mediterranean › leishmaniasis
• Ponos
• Sahib disease
• Sirkari's disease
• Sudanese kala-azar

Nearby codes

• B55 Leishmaniasis
• B55.0 Visceral leishmaniasis (this code)
• B55.1 Cutaneous leishmaniasis
• B55.2 Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
• B55.9 Leishmaniasis, unspecified