R78.7
R78.7 — Finding of abnormal level of heavy metals in blood
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R78.7 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for finding of abnormal level of heavy metals in blood. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
R78.7 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.
Code to one of these instead R78.7
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R78. If R78.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- R78.0Finding of alcohol in blood
- R78.1Finding of opiate drug in blood
- R78.2Finding of cocaine in blood
- R78.3Finding of hallucinogen in blood
- R78.4Finding of other drugs of addictive potential in blood
- R78.5Finding of other psychotropic drug in blood
- R78.6Finding of steroid agent in blood
- R78.8Finding of other specified substances, not normally found in blood
- R78.9Finding of unspecified substance, not normally found in blood
Questions about R78.7
- Is R78.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. R78.7 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does R78.7 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).