- A52.15 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM A52.15 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A52.15 – other international versions of ICD-10 A52.15 may differ.
ICD-10-CM A52.15 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s):
- 056 Degenerative nervous system disorders with mcc
- 057 Degenerative nervous system disorders without mcc
Applicable To
- Late syphilitic acoustic neuritis
- Late syphilitic optic (nerve) atrophy
- Late syphilitic polyneuropathy
- Late syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): No change
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to A52.15:
- optic (papillomacular bundle) > nerve
- syphilitic (late) > optic (papillomacular bundle) A52.15
- syphilitic (late) > optic (nerve) H47.20
- syphilitic > Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) H91.9-
- neuromuscular mechanism, due to syphilis (eye) > Disturbance (s)
- syphilitic > acoustic (nerve) H93.3
- in (due to) > retrobulbar
- late syphilis > in (due to) A52.15
- syphilitic > retrobulbar
- syphilitic > Neuritis (rheumatoid) M79.2
- optic atrophy > Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) A52.3
- syphilitic > nerve
- syphilis (late) > in (due to) G62.1
- syphilitic (late) > Polyneuropathy (peripheral) G62.9
- acoustic nerve > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- nerves (multiple palsies) > cerebral A52.17
- cranial nerve > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- multiple palsies > cranial nerve A52.15
- nerve (eighth) > inner A52.79
- neurorecurrence > inner A52.79
- eighth nerve (neuritis) > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- nerve palsy (any cranial nerve) > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- multiple > nerve palsy (any cranial nerve) A52.15
- neuritis > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- acoustic > neuritis A52.15
- optic nerve (atrophy) (neuritis) (papilla) > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- retrobulbar neuritis > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- seventh nerve (paralysis) > Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9