B56.9 — African trypanosomiasis, unspecified
B56.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for african trypanosomiasis, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Sleeping sickness NOS
Risk adjustment
B56.9 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
B56.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How B56.9 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 B56.9.
- African›sleeping sickness
- African›trypanosomiasis
- Sickness›sleeping(African)
- Trypanosomiasis›African
- Encephalitis›in›African trypanosomiasis
- Meningitis›in›African trypanosomiasis
- Sickness›sleeping›by Trypanosoma
- Trypanosomiasis›where›African trypanosomiasis is prevalent
- Dementia›in›trypanosomiasis›African
- Dementia›in›trypanosomiasis›African›with behavioral disturbance
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B56. If B56.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B56.9
- Is B56.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B56.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B56.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Protozoal diseases (B50-B64).