Is R70.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R70.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R70.0 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis (R70-R79).

R70.0

R70.0 — Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R70.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R70.0 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 R70.0 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 R70.0.

Elevated, elevation›erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Elevated, elevation›sedimentation rate
Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›sedimentation rate, elevated

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R70. If R70.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

R70.1Abnormal plasma viscosity

Questions about R70.0

Is R70.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R70.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R70.0 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis (R70-R79).