A19.1 — Acute miliary tuberculosis of multiple sites
A19.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for acute miliary tuberculosis of multiple sites. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
A19.1 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
A19.1 is named in 10 Medicare coverage policies — 10 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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- A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms
How A19.1 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 A19.1.
- Polyserositis›tuberculous›acute
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous›multiple›acute
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous›polyserositis›acute
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous›miliary›acute›multiple sites
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A19. If A19.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A19.1
- Is A19.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A19.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A19.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Tuberculosis (A15-A19).