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Use an ‘Other’ Code to Best Capture African Tick Bite Fever

Published on Mon Jul 27, 2026

Question: I’m reading notes for a recent patient encounter. The patient presented with fever, headache, muscle pain, and several black-centered skin lesions, which the provider described later in the note as eschars. The physician documented that the patient recently returned from a three-week teaching assignment in a South African game park and diagnosed African tick bite fever. What ICD-10-CM code [...]
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