Diagnosis Code: R23.0

Short Description: Cyanosis

Long Description: Cyanosis

The code R23.0 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 skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20-R23)
    • Other skin changes (R23)
      • R23.0 Cyanosis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Blue extremities
• Blue skin
• Blue skin
• Blue skin
• Blue skin
• Central cyanosis
• Central cyanosis
• Cyanosis
• Cyanosis of skin
• Cyanosis of skin
• Cyanosis of skin
• Cyanosis of skin and/or skin-associated mucous membrane
• Cyanosis of skin and/or skin-associated mucous membrane
• Cyanosis of skin and/or skin-associated mucous membrane
• Cyanosis of skin and/or skin-associated mucous membrane
• Cyanosis of skin over lesion
• Cyanotic attack
• Cyanotic attack
• Finding of color of limb
• Goes blue
• Hemoglobinopathy with cyanosis
• Hypercyanotic spell due to congenital heart disease
• Local cyanosis
• Local disease
• Peripheral cyanosis
• Pulmonary cyanosis
• Toxic methemoglobinemia with cyanosis

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R23.0 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)

• Signs And Symptoms With Mcc (947)
• Signs And Symptoms Without Mcc (948)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R23.0 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Type 1 Excludes Notes:
  • acrocyanosis (@I73.8*)
  • cyanotic attacks of newborn (@P28.2*)

Crosswalk Information

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

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