A93.1
A93.1 — Sandfly fever
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
A93.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for sandfly fever. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Pappataci fever
- Phlebotomus fever
Risk adjustment
A93.1 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.
How A93.1 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 A93.1.
- Changuinola fever
- Chitral fever
- Phlebotomus fever
- Sandfly fever
- Three-day fever
- Dengue›sandfly
- Fever›Changuinola
- Fever›Chitral
- Fever›Pappataci
- Fever›phlebotomus
- Fever›sandfly
- Fever›three-day
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A93. If A93.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A93.1
- Is A93.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A93.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A93.1 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).