A93.8

A93.8: Other specified arthropod-borne viral fevers

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

A93.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified arthropod-borne viral fevers. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check A93.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

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

Piry virus disease
Vesicular stomatitis virus disease [Indiana fever]

Other codes that can never be billed with A93.8

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

B08Other viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions, not elsewhere classified

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

A93.8 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58720Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58747Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58761Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Heartland virus disease
Disease, diseased›Heartland
Disease, diseased›Nairobi(sheep virus)
Disease, diseased›Piry virus
Fever›Indiana
Fever›Piry(virus)
Fever›tick-bite NEC
Fever›tick-borne NEC(hemorrhagic)
Fever›vesicular stomatitis
Disease, diseased›arthropod-borne NOS›specified type NEC
Disease, diseased›viral, virus›vesicular stomatitis
Fever›arbovirus, arboviral›specified NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.