Diagnosis Code

R73.9 HYPERGLYCEMIA, UNSPECIFIED


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R73.9

Short Description: Hyperglycemia, unspecified

Long Description: Hyperglycemia, unspecified

The code R73.9 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)
      • Elevated blood glucose level (R73)
        • R73.9 Hyperglycemia, unspecified

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Acute hyperglycemia
  • Chorea due to hyperglycemia
  • Chorea due to metabolic disorder
  • Chronic hyperglycemia
  • Dawn phenomenon
  • Drug-induced hyperglycemia
  • Drug-induced hyperglycemia
  • High glucose level in blood
  • Hyperglycemia
  • Hyperglycemic disorder
  • Metabolic stress hyperglycemia
  • Neonatal hyperglycemia
  • Non-diabetic hyperglycemia
  • Poor glycemic control
  • Random blood glucose outside reference range
  • Random blood sugar above reference range
  • Random glucose level abnormal
  • Steroid-induced hyperglycemia

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R73.9 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes With Mcc (640)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes Without Mcc (641)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R73.9 Right Arrow 790.29 Abnormal glucose NEC

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R73 Elevated blood glucose level
R73.0 Abnormal glucose
R73.01 Impaired fasting glucose
R73.02 Impaired glucose tolerance (oral)
R73.03 Prediabetes
R73.09 Other abnormal glucose


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023