2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A75.2

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Typhus fever due to Rickettsia typhi

  • A75.2 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 A75.2 became effective on October 1, 2023.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A75.2 – other international versions of ICD-10 A75.2 may differ.

Applicable To

  • Murine (flea-borne) typhus

The following code(s) above A75.2 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to A75.2:

  • A00-B99  Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
  • A75  Typhus fever

Approximate Synonyms

  • Murine typhus
  • Typhus, murine

Clinical Information

  • A bacterial infection caused by rickettsia typhi or rickettsia felis. It is transmitted to humans from infected rat fleas. Symptoms include fever, headache, joint and muscle pain, and weakness.
  • An infectious disease clinically similar to epidemic louse-borne typhus (typhus, epidemic louse-borne), but caused by rickettsia typhi, which is transmitted from rat to man by the rat flea, xenopsylla cheopis.

ICD-10-CM A75.2 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 A75.2 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 A75.2: