D46.2
D46.2 — Refractory anemia with excess of blasts [RAEB]
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D46.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for refractory anemia with excess of blasts [raeb]. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with D46.2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at D46.2. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading D46.2 alone.
- C92.0Acute myeloblastic leukemia
Risk adjustment
D46.2 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead D46.2
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D46. If D46.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- D46.0Refractory anemia without ring sideroblasts, so stated
- D46.1Refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts
- D46.ARefractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia
- D46.BRefractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia and ring sideroblasts
- D46.CMyelodysplastic syndrome with isolated del(5q) chromosomal abnormality
- D46.4Refractory anemia, unspecified
- D46.ZOther myelodysplastic syndromes
- D46.9Myelodysplastic syndrome, unspecified
Questions about D46.2
- Is D46.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D46.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D46.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Neoplasms of uncertain behavior, polycythemia vera and myelodysplastic syndromes (D37-D48).