A75.3

A75.3: Typhus fever due to Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A75.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for typhus fever due to rickettsia tsutsugamushi. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check A75.3 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

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

Scrub (mite-borne) typhus
Tsutsugamushi fever
Typhus fever due to Orientia Tsutsugamushi (scrub typhus)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above A75.3

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.

Medicare coverage

A75.3 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56717Billing and Coding: Respiratory Therapy (Respiratory Care)
A57224Billing and Coding: Respiratory Care

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Kedani fever
Sumatran mite fever
Tsutsugamushi(disease) (fever)
Disease, diseased›akamushi(scrub typhus)
Disease, diseased›island(scrub typhus)
Disease, diseased›Kedani(scrub typhus)
Disease, diseased›shimamushi(scrub typhus)
Disease, diseased›tsutsugamushi
Fever›Japanese river
Fever›kedani
Fever›Sumatran mite
Fever›tsutsugamushi

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.