ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D55-D59 › D57.21 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis › D57.211

D57.211

Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with acute chest syndrome

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with acute chest syndrome

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