D57.81
D57.81 — Other sickle-cell disorders with crisis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D57.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other sickle-cell disorders with crisis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
D57.81 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 D57.81
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- D57.811Other sickle-cell disorders with acute chest syndrome
- D57.812Other sickle-cell disorders with splenic sequestration
- D57.813Other sickle-cell disorders with cerebral vascular involvement
- D57.814Other sickle-cell disorders with dactylitis
- D57.818Other sickle-cell disorders with crisis with other specified complication
- D57.819Other sickle-cell disorders with crisis, unspecified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D57.8. If D57.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D57.81
- Is D57.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D57.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D57.81 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).