Hypertensive 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, FY2017 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

I16.0 Hypertensive urgency
I16.1 Hypertensive emergency
I16.9 Hypertensive crisis, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Hypertensive 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.

This code

Code also

any identified hypertensive disease (I10-I15, I1A)

Inherited from the I10-I1A section Hypertensive diseases (I10-I1A)

Excludes1 - never coded here

neonatal hypertension (P29.2)
primary pulmonary hypertension (I27.0)

Excludes2 - not included here

hypertensive disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O10-O11, O13-O16)

Use additional code

code to identify:
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)