ICD-10-CM Code A79.0
Trench fever
Billable Code
Billable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis.A79.0 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of trench fever. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD code A790 is used to code Trench fever
Trench fever (also known as "five-day fever", "quintan fever" (febris quintana in Latin), and "urban trench fever") is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I (three noted sufferers being the authors J.R.R. Tolkien, A. A. Milne, and C.S. Lewis), and the German army in Russia during World War I. From 1915 to 1918 between one-fifth and one-third of all British troops reported ill had trench fever while about one-fifth of ill German and Austrian troops had the disease. The disease persists among the homeless. Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in Seattle and Baltimore in the United States among injection drug users and in Marseille, France, and Burundi.
| Specialty: | Infectious Disease |
| MeSH Code: | D014205 |
| ICD 9 Code: | 831 |
Coding Notes for A79.0 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive. - Quintan fever
- Wolhynian fever
MS-DRG Mapping
- DRG Group #867-869 - Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with MCC.
- DRG Group #867-869 - Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with CC.
- DRG Group #867-869 - Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses without CC or MCC.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'A79.0 - Trench fever'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code A79.0. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
Equivalent ICD-9 Code GENERAL EQUIVALENCE MAPPINGS (GEM)
This is the official exact match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that in all cases where the ICD9 code 083.1 was previously used, A79.0 is the appropriate modern ICD10 code.
Parent Code: A79 - Other rickettsioses