R71.0 — Precipitous drop in hematocrit
R71.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for precipitous drop in hematocrit. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Drop (precipitous) in hemoglobin
- Drop in hematocrit
Risk adjustment
R71.0 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.
Medicare coverage
R71.0 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56767Billing and Coding: Heavy Metal Testing
- A57342Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Colonoscopy
How R71.0 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 R71.0.
- Decrease›hematocrit
- Decrease›hemoglobin
- Drop›hematocrit(precipitous)
- Drop›hemoglobin
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›hematocrit drop(precipitous)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R71. If R71.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R71.0
- Is R71.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R71.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R71.0 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).