ICD-10-CM Code A93.2

Valid for Submission

A93.2 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of colorado tick fever. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code A93.2 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like colorado tick fever or infection caused by coltavirus.

Index to Diseases and Injuries

The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code A93.2 are found in the index:

• - American
  • - mountain tick fever - A93.2

• - Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) - R50.9
  • - American
    • - mountain (tick) - A93.2
  • - Colorado tick (virus) - A93.2
  • - mountain - See Also: Brucellosis;
    • - tick (American) (Colorado) (viral) - A93.2
  • - non-exanthematous tick - A93.2
  • - tick
    • - American mountain - A93.2
    • - Colorado - A93.2
    • - mountain - A93.2
    • - nonexanthematous - A93.2

• - Mountain
  • - tick fever - A93.2

• - Nonexanthematous tick fever - A93.2

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Colorado tick fever
• Infection caused by Coltavirus

Clinical Information

• COLORADO TICK FEVER-. a febrile illness characterized by chills aches vomiting leukopenia and sometimes encephalitis. it is caused by the colorado tick fever virus a reovirus transmitted by the tick dermacentor andersoni.
• COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS-. a species of coltivirus transmitted by the tick dermacentor andersonii and causing fever chills aching head and limbs and often vomiting. it occurs in the northwestern united states except the pacific coast.

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code A93.2 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2020.

• 865 - VIRAL ILLNESS WITH MCC
• 866 - VIRAL ILLNESS WITHOUT MCC

Convert A93.2 to ICD-9

• 066.1 - Tick-borne fever (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00–B99)
  • Arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral hemorrhagic fevers (A90-A99)
    • Other arthropod-borne viral fevers, not elsewhere classified (A93)

Code History

• FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
  (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
• FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
• FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
• FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
• FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020

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