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ICD-10-CM Code for Elevated blood glucose level R73

ICD-10 code R73 for Elevated blood glucose level is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

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Official Long Descriptor

Elevated blood glucose level
Excludes1: diabetes mellitus (E08-E13)
diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O24.-)
neonatal disorders (P70.0-P70.2)
postsurgical hypoinsulinemia (E89.1)
 
R73 Elevated blood glucose level
Child Code
Abnormal glucose
Child Code
Hyperglycemia, unspecified

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CPT 36415 - Is provider sign off required?
Hi Jan At my facility or doctor's office if patient gets blood drawn CPT 36415 . The provider / doc will order lab test on a requisition order form in which he wants to check if pt. has a certain d... [ Read More ]
Pre-Diabetes with Hypoglycemia
If the physician documented the hypoglycemia as due to the use of Metformin and prediabetes, I believe you should code iatrogenic hypoglycemia (E16.0), adverse effect of insulin or antidiabetic drug (... [ Read More ]
Pre-Diabetes with Hypoglycemia
Unless the provider actual states that the patient is pre-diabetic you would code this visit as hypoglycemia only. In order to code pre-diabetes the physician would have to make that decision based o... [ Read More ]
Coding of E86 & R79 together
[QUOTE="Jerin9645, post: 472870, member: 415684"] Hi, Can we code both Dehydration (E86.0) and Other abnormal findings of blood chemistry (R79.) together? Bcz for R73, E86 is in Excludes 1. can anyon... [ Read More ]
Coding of E86 & R79 together
Please ask your question again. You say 'can you code R79.X and E86.0?' Bcz ('because' presumably) for R73, E86 "is in Excludes 1." Do you mean R79 or R73 codes? Neither codes have an Excludes 1 with... [ Read More ]
Coding of E86 & R79 together
Hi, Can we code both Dehydration (E86.0) and Other abnormal findings of blood chemistry (R79.) together? Bcz for R73, E86 is in Excludes 1. can anyone suggest why is that? Thanks in advance.... [ Read More ]
physician show the patient for diabetes check
[QUOTE="mitchellde, post: 463576, member: 30657"] Was there an abnormal elevated blood glucose reported? If not the use the symptoms documented. You did not state that the patient had an elevated gl... [ Read More ]
physician show the patient for diabetes check
[TABLE] [TR] [TD] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]male presents to check for DM. Pt states he has a strong family hx of DM and has been feeling fatigued, thirsty, hungry with polyuria for years. His sister told him ... [ Read More ]
DM Diagnosis?
R73 category has an excludes 1 note for all E08-E13 codes. So there is the definitive answer. You could bypass the edit with an overriding reason but there really is nothing here you can use to over... [ Read More ]
DM Diagnosis?
Coding has to be based on documentation, so without seeing the documentation, there's no way to say if this is correct or not. But normally, 'symptom' codes, such as R73.09, '[I]that are associated r... [ Read More ]
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