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Category · FY2027

R03 Abnormal blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis

  • Header · not billable

R03 is not billable. The category heads 2 billable codes in FY2027: the 2 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Borderlinehypertension → R03.0
  • Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)transient → R03.0
  • Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)borderline → R03.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R00-R09 Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
  3. R03 Abnormal blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis
Billable codes
2
Subdivisions
2
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
15

Codes in R03

  1. R03.0
    Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension
    Billable
    Notes 1

    Notes

    • This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an isolated incidental finding.
  2. R03.1
    Nonspecific low blood-pressure reading
    Billable
    Excludes1 3

    Excludes1

    • hypotension (I95.-) I95
    • maternal hypotension syndrome (O26.5-) O26.5
    • neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (G90.3) G90.3

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Chapter 18 instructions (Notes 9, Excludes2 4): printed on the chapter 18 page.

Index entries

  • Borderlinehypertension → R03.0
  • Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)borderline → R03.0
  • Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic)transient → R03.0
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesblood pressureelevated → R03.0
  • Elevated, elevationblood pressurereading (incidental) (isolated) (nonspecific), no diagnosis of hypertension → R03.0
  • Highblood pressureborderline → R03.0
  • Highblood pressurereading (incidental) (isolated) (nonspecific), without diagnosis of hypertension → R03.0
  • Tensionarterial, highwithout diagnosis of hypertension → R03.0
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesblood pressurelow reading (nonspecific) → R03.1
  • Decrease (d)bloodpressure → R03.1
  • Lowblood pressurereading (incidental) (isolated) (nonspecific) → R03.1
  • Pressurehyposystolicincidental reading, without diagnosis of hypotension → R03.1
  • Bloodpressurehighborderline → R03.0
  • Bloodpressurehighincidental reading, without diagnosis of hypertension → R03.0
  • Bloodpressurelowincidental reading, without diagnosis of hypotension → R03.1

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