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A75.1

A75.1: Recrudescent typhus [Brill's disease]

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A75.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for recrudescent typhus [brill's disease]. 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.

  • Brill-Zinsser disease

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above A75.1

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

  • Brill(-Zinsser) disease (recrudescent typhus)
  • Recrudescent typhus(fever)
  • Disease, diseased›Brill-Zinsser(recrudescent typhus)
  • Disease, diseased›Brill's(recrudescent typhus)
  • Typhus›recrudescent
  • Infection, infected, infective›typhus›recrudescent
  • Typhus›exanthematicus SAI›brillii SAI
  • Typhus›due to Rickettsia›prowazekii›recrudescent

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under A75

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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