Mumps without complication
- B26.9 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 B26.9 became effective on October 1, 2023.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of B26.9 – other international versions of ICD-10 B26.9 may differ.
Applicable To
- Mumps NOS
- Mumps parotitis NOS
The following code(s) above B26.9 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to B26.9:
- A00-B99 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
- B26 Mumps
Approximate Synonyms
- Mumps
Clinical Information
- A contagious viral infection caused by the mumps virus. Symptoms include swollen and tender parotid glands, fever, muscle aches and fatigue. Due to vaccination programs, mumps has become a rare disease.
- Acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by rubulavirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes; spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine.
- An acute infectious disease caused by rubulavirus, spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine, and usually seen in children under the age of 15, although adults may also be affected. (from Dorland, 28th ed)
- Mumps is an illness caused by the mumps virus. It starts with
- fever
- headache
- muscle aches
- tiredness
- loss of appetite
ICD-10-CM B26.9 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v41.0):
- 865 Viral illness with mcc
- 866 Viral illness without mcc
Convert B26.9 to ICD-9-CMCode History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 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
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to B26.9:
- Mumps B26.9