R73.09 — Other abnormal glucose
R73.09 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other abnormal glucose. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Abnormal glucose NOS
- Abnormal non-fasting glucose tolerance
Risk adjustment
R73.09 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
R73.09 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies — 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- 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
How R73.09 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 R73.09.
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›blood sugar
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›glucose tolerance(test) (non-fasting)
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›blood sugar
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›glucose(tolerance test) (non-fasting)
- Decrease›tolerance›glucose
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R73.0. If R73.09 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R73.09
- Is R73.09 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R73.09 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R73.09 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).