Is R79.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R79.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R79.82 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).

R79.82

R79.82 — Elevated C-reactive protein (CRP)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R79.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for elevated c-reactive protein (crp). It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R79.82 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.

How R79.82 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 R79.82.

Elevated, elevation›C-reactive protein(CRP)
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›chemistry, blood›C-reactive protein

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R79.8. If R79.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R79.82

Is R79.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R79.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R79.82 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).