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Category · FY2027

R73 Elevated blood glucose level

  • Header · not billable

R73 is not billable. The category heads 5 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 2 subdivisions.

Index → code

  • Prediabetes, prediabetic → R73.03
  • Borderlinediabetes mellitus → R73.03
  • Diabetes, diabetic (mellitus) (sugar)latent → R73.03

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. R73 Elevated blood glucose level
Billable codes
5
Subdivisions
2
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
16

Codes in R73

  1. R73.0
    Abnormal glucose
    Header
    Excludes1 7

    Excludes1

    • abnormal glucose in pregnancy (O99.81-) O99.81
    • diabetes mellitus (E08-E13) E08 E13
    • dysmetabolic syndrome X (E88.81-) E88.81
    • gestational diabetes (O24.4-) O24.4
    • glycosuria (R81) R81
    • hypoglycemia (E16.2) E16.2
    • type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic (E10.A-) E10.A
  2. R73.01
    Impaired fasting glucose
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Elevated fasting glucose
  3. R73.02
    Impaired glucose tolerance (oral)
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Elevated glucose tolerance
  4. R73.03
    Prediabetes
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Latent diabetes
  5. R73.09
    Other abnormal glucose
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Abnormal glucose NOS
    • Abnormal non-fasting glucose tolerance
  6. R73.9
    Hyperglycemia, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At R73

Excludes1

  • diabetes mellitus (E08-E13) E08 E13
  • diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O24.-) O24
  • neonatal disorders (P70.0-P70.2) P70.0 P70.2
  • postsurgical hypoinsulinemia (E89.1) E89.1

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

  • Prediabetes, prediabetic → R73.03
  • Hyperglycemia, hyperglycemic (transient) → R73.9
  • Elevated, elevationfasting glucose → R73.01
  • Impaired, impairment (function)fasting glucose → R73.01
  • Elevated, elevationglucose tolerance (oral) → R73.02
  • Impaired, impairment (function)glucose tolerance (oral) → R73.02
  • Borderlinediabetes mellitus → R73.03
  • Diabetes, diabetic (mellitus) (sugar)latent → R73.03
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesblood sugar → R73.09
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesglucose tolerance (test) (non-fasting) → R73.09
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisblood sugar → R73.09
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisglucose (tolerance test) (non-fasting) → R73.09
  • Elevated, elevationblood sugar → R73.9
  • Decrease (d)toleranceglucose → R73.09
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisblood sugarhigh → R73.9
  • Sugarbloodhigh (transient) → R73.9

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