Q fever
Billable / specific
A78 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Applicable to
- Infection due to Coxiella burnetii
- Nine Mile fever
- Quadrilateral fever
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
Also known as
- Infection due to Coxiella burnetii
- Nine Mile fever
- Quadrilateral fever
- Australian, Q fever
- Balkan grippe
- Endocarditis, Coxiella burnetii
- Endocarditis, due to Q fever
- Endocarditis, Q fever
- Fever, Australian Q
- Fever, Nine-Mile
- Fever, Q
- Fever, quadrilateral
- Grippe, grippal, Balkan
- Infection, infected, infective, Coxiella burnetii
- Infection, infected, infective, Q fever
- Pneumonia, in Q fever
- Q fever, with pneumonia