B68.1 Taenia saginata taeniasis

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

Applicable to

• Beef tapeworm (infection)
• Infection due to adult tapeworm Taenia saginata

Applies from B68 Taeniasis

Excludes1 (never code together)

• cysticercosis (B69.-)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 391-392 in MDC 06.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 123.2 Taenia saginata infection

Code annotations containing back-references to B68.1

Back-references to B68

• Code First: H94.0 Acoustic neuritis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere ("parasitic disease (B65-B89)")
• Type 2 Excludes: J82 Pulmonary eosinophilia, not elsewhere classified ("pulmonary eosinophilia due to specified parasitic infection (B50-B83)")

Diagnosis Index entries for B68.1

• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) › Taeniarhynchus saginatus
• Infestation › beef tapeworm
• Infestation › Taenia › mediocanellata
• Infestation › Taenia › saginata
• Infestation › Taeniarhynchus saginatus
• Infestation › tapeworm › beef
• Taenia (infection) (infestation) › mediocanellata
• Taenia (infection) (infestation) › saginata

Nearby codes

• B68 Taeniasis
• B68.0 Taenia solium taeniasis
• B68.1 Taenia saginata taeniasis (this code)
• B68.9 Taeniasis, unspecified