Medical Code Search: "Hypertensive crisis"
Results for “Hypertensive crisis” from ICD-10-CM and Coding Guidance. Code titles and billable status are read from the published releases.
What MedCoder understood
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- Hypertensive crisis
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- Diagnosis / condition
- Primary registry
- ICD-10-CM
- Understood as a diagnosis or condition search, so ICD-10-CM is ranked first.
- hypertensive → hypertension
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Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- The tabular carries it at category level.
- 3 codes below, all billable in the tabular hierarchy.
3 codes below, all billable
- I16.0Hypertensive urgencyBillable
- I16.1Hypertensive emergencyBillable
- I16.9Hypertensive crisis, unspecifiedBillable
Under I16 Hypertensive crisis
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under I16 Hypertensive crisis in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at billable code level.
Not by itself. Documented hypertensive urgency, emergency, or unspecified crisis takes a code from category I16, and that category instructs coders to also report any identified hypertensive disease — so I16.- and I10…
Guidance · Every search term appears in this guidance
Why this matched
- Every search term appears in this guidance
Explore I16
I16 Hypertensive crisis — what its code page carries, from the official tables.
Related concepts, from I16's tabular notes
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ICD-10-CM
All 2 matches are shown above under Best matches.
Coding Guidance
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