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New ICD-10 codes:

Hypertensive Urgency
Hypertensive Emergency
Hypertensive Crisis
DID YOU KNOW?
Arterial, Benign, Essential, Malignant, Primary and Systemic Hypertension ALL code to:
Essential (Primary) Hypertension (I10)

To reflect higher Severity of Illness in patients with the following clinical criteria, consider:
 Hypertensive Urgency
o SBP > 180 or DBP > 110 without symptoms or with headache only
 Hypertensive Emergency
o SBP > 180 or DBP > 120 with chest pain or end organ damage
o Hypertensive encephalopathy, retinal hemorrhages, papilledema, AKI
 Hypertensive Crisis
o SBP > 180 or DBP > 120
o Stroke, Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Kidney Failure

Diagnosis ICD-10 Code CC/MCC

Hypertension I10 --
{arterial, benign, essential,
malignant, primary, systemic}
Hypertensive Urgency I16.0 --
Hypertensive Emergency I16.1 CC
Hypertensive Crisis I16.9 CC

References:
www.UpToDate.com/contents/management-of-severe-asymptomatic-hypertension-hypertensive-
urgencies-in-adults

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