ICD-10 · PDGM grouping
B15-B19 — Viral hepatitis
Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.2.26.
Codes in range
23
No clinical group
0
A period cannot be grouped from these.
Barred as primary
0
CMS rejects these in the primary position.
Where these codes group
23 of the 23 codes in B15-B19 group to MMTA - Infectious Disease, Neoplasms, and Blood-Forming Diseases. Every code here is assigned a group.
Code families in B15-B19
One page per three-character family: every code in it, whether it can lead a claim, its clinical group and comorbidity subgroup.
Every code in B15-B19
Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.
| Code | Description | Clinical group | Primary position |
|---|---|---|---|
| B150 | Hepatitis A with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B159 | Hepatitis A without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B160 | Acute hepatitis B with delta-agent with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B161 | Acute hepatitis B with delta-agent without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B162 | Acute hepatitis B without delta-agent with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B169 | Acute hepatitis B w/o delta-agent and without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B170 | Acute delta-(super) infection of hepatitis B carrier | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1710 | Acute hepatitis C without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1711 | Acute hepatitis C with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B172 | Acute hepatitis E | K | Can lead a claim |
| B178 | Other specified acute viral hepatitis | K | Can lead a claim |
| B179 | Acute viral hepatitis, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
| B180 | Chronic viral hepatitis B with delta-agent | K | Can lead a claim |
| B181 | Chronic viral hepatitis B without delta-agent | K | Can lead a claim |
| B182 | Chronic viral hepatitis C | K | Can lead a claim |
| B188 | Other chronic viral hepatitis | K | Can lead a claim |
| B189 | Chronic viral hepatitis, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
| B190 | Unspecified viral hepatitis with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1910 | Unspecified viral hepatitis B without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1911 | Unspecified viral hepatitis B with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1920 | Unspecified viral hepatitis C without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B1921 | Unspecified viral hepatitis C with hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
| B199 | Unspecified viral hepatitis without hepatic coma | K | Can lead a claim |
Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective 2026-10-01. 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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