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A68.0 - Louse-borne relapsing fever


The ICD 10 Code for Louse-borne relapsing fever is listed as A68.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: A68.0
Description: Louse-borne relapsing fever
  • Relapsing fever due to Borrelia recurrentis
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
867 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Mcc
868 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Cc
869 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W/o Cc/mcc
Chapter Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Block Other spirochetal diseases (A65-A69)
Parent A68 - Relapsing fevers
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 087.0 - Relapsing fever, louse-borne
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of A68.0:
A68.1 - Tick-borne relapsing fever
A68.9 - Relapsing fever, unspecified