Category · FY2027
I16 Hypertensive crisis
- Header · not billable
I16 is not billable. The category heads 3 billable codes in FY2027: the 3 codes directly below it.
ICD-10 code by name
- What is the ICD-10 code for hypertensive emergency?
- Hypertensive emergency ICD-10 code: I16.1 Hypertensive emergency. Search ICD-10 for hypertensive emergency
Where it sits
- Billable codes
- 3
- Subdivisions
- 3
- CC / MCC codes
- 2 / 0
- HCC V28 codes
- 0
- New FY2027
- 0
- Index entries
- 3
Codes in I16
- I16.0Hypertensive urgencyBillable
- I16.1Hypertensive emergencyBillableCC
Code also 10
Code also
- , if applicable, to identify specific organ dysfunction, such as:
- acute kidney injury (N17.-) N17
- acute myocardial infarction (I21.-) I21
- acute pulmonary edema (left and/or right ventricular failure) (J81.0, I50.-) J81.0 I50
- aortic dissection (I71.0-) I71.0
- cerebral hemorrhage (I60.-. I61.-, I62.-) I60 I61 I62
- cerebral infarction (I63.-) I63
- eclampsia (O15.-) O15
- hypertensive encephalopathy (I67.4) I67.4
- seizure (R56.9) R56.9
- I16.9Hypertensive crisis, unspecifiedBillableCC
CC/MCC: as a secondary diagnosis, unless the principal diagnosis is on the code’s PDX exclusion list (MS-DRG v44 Appendix C; list on the code card).
Instructions
Notes that also apply
Block I10-I1A instructions (Excludes1 2, Excludes2 1, Use additional code 6): printed on the block page.
Chapter 9 instructions (Excludes2 10): printed on the chapter 9 page.
Index entries
- Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)›urgency → I16.0
- Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)›emergency → I16.1
- Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)›crisis → I16.9
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