ICD-10-CM Code D72.9

Valid for Submission

D72.9 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of disorder of white blood cells, unspecified. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code D72.9 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abnormal granulocyte destruction, abnormal granulocyte production, abnormal lymphocyte production, abnormal neutrophil production, b lymphocyte disorder, decreased granulocyte destruction, etc

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code D72.9:

Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.

• Abnormal leukocyte differential NOS

Index to Diseases and Injuries

The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code D72.9 are found in the index:

• - Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - See Also: Anomaly;
  • - leukocyte (cell) (differential) NEC - D72.9
  • - white blood cells - D72.9

• - Disease, diseased - See Also: Syndrome;
  • - white blood cells - D72.9

• - Disorder (of) - See Also: Disease;
  • - white blood cells - D72.9

• - Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis - See Also: Abnormal;
  • - white blood cell (count) (differential) (morphology) - D72.9

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Abnormal granulocyte destruction
• Abnormal granulocyte production
• Abnormal lymphocyte production
• Abnormal neutrophil production
• B lymphocyte disorder
• Decreased granulocyte destruction
• Decreased granulocyte production
• Disorder involving basophils and mast cells
• Disorder of basophils
• Disorder of eosinophil
• Disorder of neutrophils
• Granulocyte destruction finding
• Granulocyte destruction finding
• Hereditary white blood cell disorder
• Heritable disorder of neutrophil function
• Lymphocyte disorder
• Monocytoid disorder
• Neutrophil production finding
• Non-malignant lymphocyte AND/OR plasma cell disorder
• Non-malignant white cell disorder
• Qualitative abnormality of granulocyte
• Quantitative abnormality of granulocytes
• T lymphocyte disorder
• Thong Douglas Ferrante syndrome
• White blood cell abnormality
• White blood cell disorder

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code D72.9 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2020.

• 814 - RETICULOENDOTHELIAL AND IMMUNITY DISORDERS WITH MCC
• 815 - RETICULOENDOTHELIAL AND IMMUNITY DISORDERS WITH CC
• 816 - RETICULOENDOTHELIAL AND IMMUNITY DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC

Convert D72.9 to ICD-9

• 288.9 - Wbc disease NOS

Code Classification

• Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50–D89)
  • Other disorders of blood and blood-forming organs (D70-D77)
    • Other disorders of white blood cells (D72)

Code History

• FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
  (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
• FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
• FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
• FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
• FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020

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