D72.9
D72.9: Disorder of white blood cells, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
D72.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for disorder of white blood cells, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check D72.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Abnormal leukocyte differential NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above D72.9
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above D72.9
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
D72.9 is named in 6 Medicare coverage policies: 6 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A55717Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
- A56199Billing and Coding: Molecular Pathology Procedures
- A56793Billing and Coding: Genomic Sequence Analysis Panels in the Treatment of Hematolymphoid Diseases
- A57689Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›leukocyte NEC(cell) (differential)
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›white blood cells
- Disease, diseased›white blood cells
- Disorder›white blood cells
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›white blood cell(count) (differential) (morphology)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.