Diagnosis Code: R03.0

Short Description: Elevated blood-pressure reading, w/o diagnosis of htn

Long Description: Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension

The code R03.0 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

• Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
  • Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
    • Abnormal blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis (R03)
      • R03.0 Elevated blood-pressure reading, w/o diagnosis of htn

This code is valid for questionable admission codes

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Abnormal jugular venous pressure
• Central venous pressure - finding
• Elevated blood pressure
• Elevated blood-pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
• Increased central venous pressure
• Increased diastolic arterial pressure
• Increased mean arterial pressure
• Increased systolic arterial pressure
• Increased venous pressure
• Prehypertension

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R03.0 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)

• Other Circulatory System Diagnoses With Mcc (314)
• Other Circulatory System Diagnoses With Cc (315)
• Other Circulatory System Diagnoses Without Cc/mcc (316)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R03.0 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Notes:
  • This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an isolated incidental finding.

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This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023

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