ICD-10 · PDGM grouping

A15-A19 — Tuberculosis

Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.1.26.

OASIS-E2 v1.00.0 · ingested 2026-04-26

Codes in range

No clinical group

A period cannot be grouped from these.

Barred as primary

CMS rejects these in the primary position.

Where these codes group

39 of the 51 codes in A15-A19 group to MMTA - Infectious Disease, Neoplasms, and Blood-Forming Diseases, but the range is not uniform — it spreads across 3 clinical groups. A further 1 are assigned no clinical group at all, which means a 30-day period cannot be grouped from them.

Every code in A15-A19

Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.

Code	Description	Clinical group	Primary position
A150	Tuberculosis of lung	K	Accepted
A154	Tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes	K	Accepted
A155	Tuberculosis of larynx, trachea and bronchus	K	Accepted
A156	Tuberculous pleurisy	K	Accepted
A157	Primary respiratory tuberculosis	K	Accepted
A158	Other respiratory tuberculosis	K	Accepted
A159	Respiratory tuberculosis unspecified	K	Accepted
A170	Tuberculous meningitis	B	Accepted
A171	Meningeal tuberculoma	B	Accepted
A1781	Tuberculoma of brain and spinal cord	B	Accepted
A1782	Tuberculous meningoencephalitis	B	Accepted
A1783	Tuberculous neuritis	B	Accepted
A1789	Other tuberculosis of nervous system	B	Accepted
A179	Tuberculosis of nervous system, unspecified	B	Accepted
A1801	Tuberculosis of spine	E	Accepted
A1802	Tuberculous arthritis of other joints	E	Accepted
A1803	Tuberculosis of other bones	E	Accepted
A1809	Other musculoskeletal tuberculosis	E	Accepted
A1810	Tuberculosis of genitourinary system, unspecified	None	Cannot group
A1811	Tuberculosis of kidney and ureter	K	Accepted
A1812	Tuberculosis of bladder	K	Accepted
A1813	Tuberculosis of other urinary organs	K	Accepted
A1814	Tuberculosis of prostate	K	Accepted
A1815	Tuberculosis of other male genital organs	K	Accepted
A1816	Tuberculosis of cervix	K	Accepted
A1817	Tuberculous female pelvic inflammatory disease	K	Accepted
A1818	Tuberculosis of other female genital organs	K	Accepted
A182	Tuberculous peripheral lymphadenopathy	K	Accepted
A1831	Tuberculous peritonitis	K	Accepted
A1832	Tuberculous enteritis	K	Accepted
A1839	Retroperitoneal tuberculosis	K	Accepted
A184	Tuberculosis of skin and subcutaneous tissue	K	Accepted
A1850	Tuberculosis of eye, unspecified	K	Accepted
A1851	Tuberculous episcleritis	K	Accepted
A1852	Tuberculous keratitis	K	Accepted
A1853	Tuberculous chorioretinitis	K	Accepted
A1854	Tuberculous iridocyclitis	K	Accepted
A1859	Other tuberculosis of eye	K	Accepted
A186	Tuberculosis of (inner) (middle) ear	K	Accepted
A187	Tuberculosis of adrenal glands	K	Accepted
A1881	Tuberculosis of thyroid gland	K	Accepted
A1882	Tuberculosis of other endocrine glands	K	Accepted
A1883	Tuberculosis of digestive tract organs, NEC	K	Accepted
A1884	Tuberculosis of heart	K	Accepted
A1885	Tuberculosis of spleen	K	Accepted
A1889	Tuberculosis of other sites	K	Accepted
A190	Acute miliary tuberculosis of a single specified site	K	Accepted
A191	Acute miliary tuberculosis of multiple sites	K	Accepted
A192	Acute miliary tuberculosis, unspecified	K	Accepted
A198	Other miliary tuberculosis	K	Accepted
A199	Miliary tuberculosis, unspecified	K	Accepted

Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.1.26, effective 2026-04-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.

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A15-A19 — Tuberculosis

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Every code in A15-A19

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