D76.2 — Hemophagocytic syndrome, infection-associated
D76.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hemophagocytic syndrome, infection-associated. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code to identify infectious agent or disease.
Risk adjustment
D76.2 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.
Medicare coverage
D76.2 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A55717Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
- A56464Billing and Coding: Flow Cytometry
- A57689Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
How D76.2 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 D76.2.
- Syndrome›hemophagocytic, infection-associated
- Syndrome›macrophage activation›due to infection
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D76. If D76.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D76.2
- Is D76.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. D76.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does D76.2 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).