B73.00 — Onchocerciasis with eye involvement, unspecified
B73.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for onchocerciasis with eye involvement, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
B73.00 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
B73.00 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 B73.00 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 B73.00.
- Onchocerciasis, onchocercosis›eye NEC
- Infestation›microfilaria streptocerca›eye
- Onchocerciasis, onchocercosis›with›eye disease
- Infestation›filarial›due to›Onchocerca volvulus
- Infestation›filarial›due to›Onchocerca volvulus›eye
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B73.0. If B73.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B73.00
- Is B73.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B73.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B73.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Helminthiases (B65-B83).