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Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 084.6
Malaria, unspecified
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 084.6 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 084.6 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 084.6 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM B54 Unspecified malaria
Approximate Synonyms
  • Malaria
  • Malaria in childbirth
  • Malaria in pregnancy
  • Malarial fever
  • Maternal malaria during pregnancy
  • Maternal malaria during pregnancy - baby delivered
  • Maternal malaria in pregnancy, after childbirth
  • Postpartum malaria
Clinical Information
  • Protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the genus plasmodium (p. Falciparum, p. Vivax, p. Ovale, and p. Malariae) and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus anopheles; malaria is endemic in parts of asia, africa, central and south america, oceania, and certain caribbean islands; characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high fever, sweating, shaking chills, and anemia; malaria in animals is caused by other species of plasmodia
Applies To
  • Malaria (fever) NOS
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 084.6:
  • Ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • dumb 084.6
  • Anemia 285.9
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • marsh (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • paludal (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Cameroon fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Chill(s) 780.64
    • congestive 780.99
      • in malarial regions 084.6
  • Congestion, congestive
    • chill 780.99
      • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • malaria, malarial (brain) (fever) (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Corsican fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Dumb ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Dysentery, dysenteric (bilious) (catarrhal) (diarrhea) (epidemic) (gangrenous) (hemorrhagic) (infectious) (sporadic) (tropical) (ulcerative) 009.0
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Fever 780.60
    • with chills 780.60
      • in malarial regions (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • and ague (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • Cameroon (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • congestive
      • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
      • remittent (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • Corsican (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • gastromalarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • intermittent (bilious) (see also Malaria) 084.6
      • hepatic (Charcôt) - see Choledocholithiasis
      • of unknown origin (see also Pyrexia) 780.60
      • pernicious 084.0
    • malaria, malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • marsh (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • miasmatic (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • paludal (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • remittent (bilious) (congestive) (gastric) (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • typhomalarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Hyperpyrexia 780.60
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Malaria, malarial (fever) 084.6
    • carrier (suspected) of V02.9
    • complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or puerperium 647.4
    • congestion, congestive 084.6
    • falciparum (malignant tertian) 084.0
    • hemorrhagic 084.6
    • induced (therapeutically) 084.7
      • accidental - see Malaria, by type
    • malignant (tertian) 084.0
    • recurrent 084.6
      • induced (therapeutically) 084.7
        • accidental - see Malaria, by type
    • remittent 084.6
    • specified types NEC 084.4
    • spleen 084.6
    • typhoid 084.6
    • vivax (benign tertian) 084.1
  • Marsh fever (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute) (see also Neuritis) 729.2
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Remittent fever (malarial) 084.6
  • Splenitis (interstitial) (malignant) (nonspecific) 289.59
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Splenomegaly 789.2
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Toxemia 799.89
    • malarial NEC (see also Malaria) 084.6
  • Typhomalaria (fever) (see also Malaria) 084.6
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