A75.0

A75.0: Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A75.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to rickettsia prowazekii. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

Classical typhus (fever)
Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above A75.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on A75: Typhus fever

rickettsiosis due to Ehrlichia sennetsu (A79.81)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Hildenbrand's disease
Fever›famine
Tabardillo›louse-borne
Typhus›classical
Typhus›epidemic(louse-borne)
Typhus›exanthematic NEC
Typhus›exanthematicus SAI
Typhus›louse-borne
Myocarditis›in›epidemic louse-borne typhus
Typhus›due to Rickettsia›prowazekii

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.