Is D72.825 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. D72.825 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does D72.825 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 Other disorders of blood and blood-forming organs (D70-D77).

What cannot be coded together with D72.825?

D72.825 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

D72.825

D72.825 — Bandemia

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

D72.825 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for bandemia. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

confirmed infection - code to infection
leukemia (C91.-, C92.-, C93.-, C94.-, C95.-)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Bandemia without diagnosis of specific infection

Risk adjustment

D72.825 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.

How D72.825 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to D72.825.

Bandemia

Related codes at this level

Codes that share D72.82. If D72.825 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about D72.825

Is D72.825 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. D72.825 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does D72.825 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 Other disorders of blood and blood-forming organs (D70-D77).
What cannot be coded together with D72.825?: D72.825 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.