Is A01.02 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. A01.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does A01.02 sit in the tabular list?

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).

A01.02

A01.02 — Typhoid fever with heart involvement

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A01.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for typhoid fever with heart involvement. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Typhoid endocarditis
Typhoid myocarditis

Other codes that can never be billed with A01.02

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at A01.02. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading A01.02 alone.

I39Endocarditis and heart valve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere

Risk adjustment

A01.02 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

A01.02 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms
A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58720Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58747Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing

How A01.02 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to A01.02.

Endocarditis›typhoid
Myocarditis›typhoid
Typhoid›endocarditis
Typhoid›heart involvement
Typhoid›myocarditis
Endocarditis›due to›typhoid(fever)
Myocarditis›in›typhoid
Fever›typhoid›complicated by›heart involvement

Related codes at this level

Codes that share A01.0. If A01.02 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about A01.02

Is A01.02 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. A01.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does A01.02 sit in the tabular list?: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Intestinal infectious diseases (A00-A09).