Diagnosis Code: R79.81

Short Description: Abnormal blood-gas level

Long Description: Abnormal blood-gas level

The code R79.81 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

• Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
  • Abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis (R70-R79)
    • Other abnormal findings of blood chemistry (R79)
      • R79.81 Abnormal blood-gas level

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Abnormal blood oxygen pressure
• Arterial blood gas outside reference range
• Arterial blood pH outside reference range
• Arterial carbon dioxide outside reference range
• Arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide above reference range
• Arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide below reference range
• Blood gases outside reference range
• Blood oxygen concentration below reference range
• Blood oxygen level outside reference range
• Finding of arterial blood pH
• Finding of arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide
• Finding of arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide
• Finding of oxygen saturation
• Finding of venous blood pH
• Hypocapnia
• Oxygen saturation below reference range
• Venous blood pH outside reference range

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R79.81 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)

• Signs And Symptoms With Mcc (947)
• Signs And Symptoms Without Mcc (948)

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