ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A65-A69 › A68 Relapsing fevers › A68.0
Louse-borne relapsing fever
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Louse-borne relapsing fever
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from A68 Relapsing fevers
Excludes2 - not included here
- Lyme disease (A69.2-)
Includes
- recurrent fever
Inherited from the A65-A69 section Other spirochetal diseases (A65-A69)
Excludes2 - not included here
- leptospirosis (A27.-)
- syphilis (A50-A53)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Fever > typhus
- Febris, febrile
- Fever > recurrent
- Typhus > recurrens
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Febris, febrile > recurrens
- Encephalitis > due to > typhus
- Disease, diseased > Hildenbrand's
- Carapata
- Obermeyer's relapsing fever
- Disease, diseased > Carapata
- Relapsing fever > louse-borne
- Relapsing fever > Obermeyer's
- Fever > relapsing > louse-borne
- Fever > relapsing > Obermeyer's
- Spirillum > obermeieri infection
- Novy's relapsing fever > louse-borne
- Fever > relapsing > Novy's > louse-borne
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A68.1 | Tick-borne relapsing fever | Valid |
| A68.9 | Relapsing fever, unspecified | Valid |