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.
Other codes that can never be billed with D57.21
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- D56.8Other thalassemias
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
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