ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D55-D59 › D57.2 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease › D57.21

D57.21

Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

  • D57.211 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with acute chest syndrome
  • D57.212 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with splenic sequestration
  • D57.213 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with cerebral vascular involvement
  • D57.214 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with dactylitis
  • D57.218 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis with other specified complication
  • D57.219 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from D57 Sickle-cell disorders

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • other hemoglobinopathies (D58.-)

Use additional code

  • code for any associated fever (R50.81)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
D57.20 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease without crisis Valid