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Hypertensive diseases. A blood pressure of 140/90 or higher. High blood pressure usually has no symptoms. It can harm the arteries and cause an increase in the risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, and blindness.
ICD-10 uses only a single code for individuals who meet criteria for hypertension and do not have comorbid heart or kidney disease. That code is I10, Essential (primary) hypertension.
Persistently high systemic arterial blood pressure. Based on multiple readings (blood pressure determination), hypertension is currently defined as when systolic pressure is consistently greater than 140 mm hg or when diastolic pressure is consistently 90 mm hg or more. Codes. I10 Essential (primary) hypertension.
abnormally high systolic blood pressure. severe hypertension that is characterized by rapid onset of extremely high blood pressure. essential hypertension with rapid progression to severe high blood pressure, papilledema, and renal failure. This code was replaced in the 2024 ICD-10-CM code set with the code (s) listed below.
Look up free coding details for ICD-10 code range I10-I1A that cover Hypertensive diseases.
ICD-10 code I10 is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for Essential (primary) hypertension / high blood pressure.
The ICD code I10 is used to code Hypertensive emergency. A hypertensive emergency (Systolic over 180 or diastolic over 120) (formerly called "malignant hypertension") is hypertension (high blood pressure) with acute impairment of one or more organ systems (especially the central nervous system, cardiovascular system and/or the renal system ...
Coding hypertension properly requires knowing all the guidelines. This article summarizes how hypertension is coded using ICD-10-CM and includes tips, definitions and a very helpful coding table summarizing your options.
Primary hypertension is put into categories I10–I13 based on a hierarchy that goes from the disease starting in the blood vessels (I10) to the heart (I11), CKD (I12), or both the heart and CKD (I13).
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.