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R73.01

R73.01: Impaired fasting glucose

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R73.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for impaired fasting glucose. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

  • Elevated fasting glucose

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R73.01

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R73.0: Abnormal glucose

  • abnormal glucose in pregnancy (O99.81-)
  • diabetes mellitus (E08-E13)
  • dysmetabolic syndrome X (E88.81-)
  • gestational diabetes (O24.4-)
  • glycosuria (R81)
  • hypoglycemia (E16.2)
  • type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic (E10.A-)

Written on R73: Elevated blood glucose level

  • diabetes mellitus (E08-E13)
  • diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O24.-)
  • neonatal disorders (P70.0-P70.2)
  • postsurgical hypoinsulinemia (E89.1)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R73.01 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies: 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

  • A56686Billing and Coding: HbA1c
  • A60204Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarker Testing for Risk Stratification in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis
  • A60205Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarker Testing in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis
  • A60214Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarker Testing for Risk Stratification in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Elevated, elevation›fasting glucose
  • Impaired, impairment›fasting glucose

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under R73.0

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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