B80Billable, valid for claims from October 1, 2026

Enterobiasis

In Helminthiases (B65-B83), chapter 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

  • B80 is billable and valid on claims for FY 2027. If the record has more detail, check the other codes under B65-B83 below.
  • As a secondary diagnosis it is a CC (complication or comorbidity), which can raise the MS-DRG payment. It doesn't count when the principal diagnosis is one of 16 closely related codes.
  • Doesn't count toward a Medicare Advantage risk score (no HCC in V28).
  • AHRQ's Chronic Condition Indicator classes it as not chronic (an acute or short-term condition).

Also indexed as: Appendicopathia oxyurica; Disease, pinworm; Enterobiasis; Enterobius vermicularis; Infection, Enterobius vermicularis; Infection, Oxyuris vermicularis; Infection, pinworm; Infection, threadworm; Infestation, Enterobius vermicularis; Infestation, helminth, intestinal, enterobiasis; Infestation, nematode NEC, Enterobius vermicularis; Infestation, nematode NEC, physaloptera; Infestation, Oxyuris vermicularis; Infestation, pinworm; Infestation, threadworm; Oxyuriasis; Oxyuris vermicularis; Pinworm; Seatworm; Threadworm; Vaginitis, in, pinworm infection

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Instructional notes

Includes: conditions that are coded here

  • oxyuriasis
  • pinworm infection
  • threadworm infection

Official coding guidelines

From the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, FY 2027 (CMS and NCHS). Links open the PDF at the right page.

Rules for coding infections and parasitic diseases, including HIV, organism and drug resistance codes, sepsis and septic shock, MRSA, Zika, and COVID-19.

Read Section I.C.1 (page 19)

B80 MS-DRGs

As the principal diagnosis, B80 groups to MS-DRG 391 or 392 (v44.0). Which one applies depends on procedures performed, secondary diagnoses (CC/MCC), and the patient's age and discharge status.

Related conditions

Grouped by AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR), which sorts every diagnosis code into clinically meaningful categories.

B80 is in Parasitic, other specified and unspecified infections (INF009, its default category), with 254 codes. Others in it:

  • A06.0 Acute amebic dysentery
  • A06.1 Chronic intestinal amebiasis
  • A06.2 Amebic nondysenteric colitis
  • A06.3 Ameboma of intestine
  • A06.4 Amebic liver abscess
  • A06.5 Amebic lung abscess
  • A06.6 Amebic brain abscess
  • A06.7 Cutaneous amebiasis

Medicare coverage articles listing B80

This Medicare billing and coding article lists B80 as a diagnosis that supports medical necessity for the services they cover. From the CMS Medicare Coverage Database; check your own contractor's article before billing.

Other codes that refer to B80

Notes on these codes point to B80.

  • N77.1 Code First: pinworm (B80)

About the condition

Plain-language background from MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine), not coding guidance.

Parasitic Diseases

Parasites are living things that use other living things - like your body - for food and a place to live. You can get them from contaminated food or water, a bug bite, or sexual contact. Some parasitic diseases are easily treated and some are not.

Read more about parasitic diseases on MedlinePlus

Code history

Valid since FY2016, when ICD-10-CM took effect on October 1, 2015. No changes since.

ICD-9-CM equivalent

Legacy crosswalk from the CMS General Equivalence Mappings (last updated 2018).

  • 127.4 Enterobiasis
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