A92.2 — Venezuelan equine fever
A92.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for venezuelan equine fever. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis
- Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus disease
Risk adjustment
A92.2 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
A92.2 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56771Billing and Coding: Special Electroencephalography
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How A92.2 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 A92.2.
- Encephalitis›Venezuelan equine
- Encephalomyelitis›Venezuelan equine
- Fever›Venezuelan equine
- Encephalitis›equine›Venezuelan
- Encephalomyelitis›equine›Venezuelan
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A92. If A92.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A92.2
- Is A92.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A92.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A92.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral hemorrhagic fevers (A90-A99).