A20.7 — Septicemic plague
A20.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for septicemic plague. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
A20.7 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 2 Septicemia, Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/Shock0.500 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
A20.7 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56717Billing and Coding: Respiratory Therapy (Respiratory Care)
- A57224Billing and Coding: Respiratory Care
- A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms
How A20.7 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 A20.7.
- Plague›septicemic
- Sepsis›Yersinia pestis
- Plague›tonsillar›septicemic
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A20. If A20.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A20.7
- Is A20.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A20.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A20.7 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Certain zoonotic bacterial diseases (A20-A28).