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R03.0 - Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension


The ICD 10 Code for Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension is listed as R03.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: R03.0
Description: Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension
  • Note: This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an isolated incidental finding.
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
314 - Other Circulatory System Diagnoses W Mcc
315 - Other Circulatory System Diagnoses W Cc
316 - Other Circulatory System Diagnoses W/o Cc/mcc
Chapter Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Block Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
Parent R03 - Abnormal blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 796.2 - Elevated blood pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of R03.0:
R03.1 - Nonspecific low blood-pressure reading