DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

R70 Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and abnormality of plasma viscosity

  • Header · not billable

R70 is not billable. The category heads 2 billable codes in FY2027: the 2 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Reticulocytosis → R70.1
  • Elevated, elevationsedimentation rate → R70.0
  • Elevated, elevationerythrocyte sedimentation rate → R70.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R70-R79 Abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis (R70-R79)
  3. R70 Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and abnormality of plasma viscosity
Billable codes
2
Subdivisions
2
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
5

Codes in R70

  1. R70.0
    Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
    Billable
  2. R70.1
    Abnormal plasma viscosity
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Block R70-R79 instructions (Excludes2 7): printed on the block page.

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

Index entries

  • Reticulocytosis → R70.1
  • Elevated, elevationerythrocyte sedimentation rate → R70.0
  • Elevated, elevationsedimentation rate → R70.0
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosissedimentation rate, elevated → R70.0
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesplasmaviscosity → R70.1

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