Tick-borne relapsing fever
- A68.1 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM A68.1 became effective on October 1, 2023.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A68.1 – other international versions of ICD-10 A68.1 may differ.
Applicable To
- Relapsing fever due to any Borrelia species other than Borrelia recurrentis
The following code(s) above A68.1 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to A68.1:
- A00-B99 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
- A65-A69 Other spirochetal diseases
- A68 Relapsing fevers
Approximate Synonyms
- Relapsing fever, tickborne
ICD-10-CM A68.1 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v41.0):
- 867 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with mcc
- 868 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses with cc
- 869 Other infectious and parasitic diseases diagnoses without cc/mcc
Convert A68.1 to ICD-9-CMCode History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to A68.1:
- African
- tick fever A68.1
- Carter’s relapsing fever A68.1 (Asiatic)
- Dutton’s relapsing fever A68.1 (West African)
- Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) R50.9
- Novy’s relapsing feverA68.9
- tick-borne A68.1
- Relapsing feverA68.9
- Carter’s A68.1 (Asiatic)
- Dutton’s A68.1 (West African)
- Novy’s A68.1 (American)
- tick-borne A68.1 (endemic)