B88.09 — Other acariasis
B88.09 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other acariasis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acarine dermatitis
- Dermatitis due to Dermanyssus gallinae
- Dermatitis due to Liponyssoides sanguineus
- Trombiculosis
Risk adjustment
B88.09 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
B88.09 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.
- A58747Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
How B88.09 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 B88.09.
- Acariasis
- Acarodermatitis(urticarioides)
- Cheese itch
- Chigger(infestation)
- Copra itch
- Grain mite(itch)
- Leptus dermatitis
- Lumbermen's itch
- Poultrymen's itch
- Red bugs
- Straw itch
- Trombiculosis, trombiculiasis, trombidiosis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B88.0. If B88.09 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B88.09
- Is B88.09 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B88.09 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B88.09 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations (B85-B89).