B73.1 Onchocerciasis without eye disease

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applies from B73 Onchocerciasis

Includes

• onchocerca volvulus infection
• onchocercosis
• river blindness

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 867-869 in MDC 18.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 125.3 Onchocerciasis (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to B73.1

Back-references to B73

• Type 2 Excludes: B74 Filariasis ("onchocerciasis (B73)")
• Code First: H94.0 Acoustic neuritis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere ("parasitic disease (B65-B89)")
• Type 2 Excludes: J82 Pulmonary eosinophilia, not elsewhere classified ("pulmonary eosinophilia due to specified parasitic infection (B50-B83)")

Diagnosis Index entries for B73.1

• Onchocerciasis, onchocercosis
• Pruritus, pruritic (essential) › due to onchocerca volvulus

Nearby codes

• B73.0 Onchocerciasis with eye disease
• B73.00 Onchocerciasis with eye involvement, unspecified
• B73.01 Onchocerciasis with endophthalmitis
• B73.02 Onchocerciasis with glaucoma
• B73.09 Onchocerciasis with other eye involvement
• B73.1 Onchocerciasis without eye disease (this code)