ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D70-D77 › D72.82 Elevated white blood cell count › D72.820

D72.820

Lymphocytosis (symptomatic)

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 Lymphocytosis (symptomatic)

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 D72 Other disorders of white blood cells

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • basophilia (D72.824)
  • immunity disorders (D80-D89)
  • preleukemia (syndrome) (D46.9)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • neutropenia (D70)

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
D72.821 Monocytosis (symptomatic) Valid
D72.822 Plasmacytosis Valid
D72.823 Leukemoid reaction Valid
D72.824 Basophilia Valid
D72.825 Bandemia Valid
D72.828 Other elevated white blood cell count Valid
D72.829 Elevated white blood cell count, unspecified Valid