R76.9 — Abnormal immunological finding in serum, unspecified
R76.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for abnormal immunological finding in serum, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
R76.9 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
R76.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How R76.9 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 R76.9.
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›immunological findings›in serum
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R76. If R76.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R76.9
- Is R76.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R76.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R76.9 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).