D57.45
D57.45 — Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with crisis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D57.45 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with crisis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- HbS-beta plus with crisis
- Sickle-cell beta plus with crisis
Risk adjustment
D57.45 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 D57.45
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- D57.451Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with acute chest syndrome
- D57.452Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with splenic sequestration
- D57.453Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with cerebral vascular involvement
- D57.454Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with dactylitis
- D57.458Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with crisis with other specified complication
- D57.459Sickle-cell thalassemia beta plus with crisis, unspecified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D57.4. If D57.45 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D57.45
- Is D57.45 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D57.45 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D57.45 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).