D57.21
D57.21 — Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D57.21 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sickle-cell/hb-c disease with crisis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
D57.21 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 D57.21
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- D57.211Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with acute chest syndrome
- D57.212Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with splenic sequestration
- D57.213Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with cerebral vascular involvement
- D57.214Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with dactylitis
- D57.218Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis with other specified complication
- D57.219Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with crisis, unspecified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D57.2. If D57.21 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D57.21
- Is D57.21 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D57.21 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D57.21 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89), in the block Hemolytic anemias (D55-D59).