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I16.1
Billable

Hypertensive emergency

Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system

Use Additional Code

10 items
  • code, if applicable, to identify specific organ dysfunction, such as:
  • acute kidney injury (N17.-)
  • acute myocardial infarction (I21.-)
  • acute pulmonary edema (left and/or right ventricular failure) (J81.0, I50.-)
  • aortic dissection (I71.0-)
  • cerebral hemorrhage (I60.-. I61.-, I62.-)
  • cerebral infarction (I63.-)
  • eclampsia (O15.-)
  • hypertensive encephalopathy (I67.4)
  • seizure (R56.9)

Billable Code

I16.1 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for accelerated hypertension
accelerated hypertension
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Accelerated Hypertension

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head pressure
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Benign Intracranial Hypertension

View documentation for hypertensive crisis
hypertensive crisis
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Hypertensive Crisis

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hypertensive emergency
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Hypertensive Emergency

View documentation for malignant hypertension
malignant hypertension
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Malignant Hypertension

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systolic blood pressure
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Systolic Hypertension

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uncontrolled hypertension
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Uncontrolled Hypertension

View documentation for uncontrolled malignant hypertension
uncontrolled malignant hypertension
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Hypertensive Emergency with Organ Damage

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes2

10 items

From I00-I99:

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)
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