Elevated white blood cell count, unspecified
Billable / specific
D72.829 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Elevated leukocytes, unspecified
- Leukocytosis, unspecified
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- autoimmune disease (systemic) NOS (M35.9) (from D72)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) (from D72)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from D72)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from D72)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from D72)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20) (from D72)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from D72)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from D72)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from D72)
- neutropenia (D70) (from D72)
Also known as
- Elevated leukocytes, unspecified
- Leukocytosis, unspecified
- Elevated, elevation, leukocytes
- Elevated, elevation, white blood cell count
- Leukocytosis
Parent code
- D72.82Elevated white blood cell countHeader