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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 796.2
Elevated blood pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
- ICD-9-CM 796.2 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
796.2 Alternative Terminology
- Blood pressure elevation
- Elevated blood pressure reading
- Elevated blood-pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
- Elevated bp reading wo htn diagnosis
- Finding of increased blood pressure
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 incidental finding.
Convert 796.2 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM 796.2 converts directly to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM R03.0 Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 796.2:
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - see also Anomaly
- Blood
pressure
decreased, due to shock following injury 958.4
- fluctuating 796.4
- high (see also Hypertension) 401.9
borderline 796.2- incidental reading (isolated) (nonspecific), without diagnosis of hypertension 796.2
- low (see also Hypotension) 458.9
- incidental reading (isolated) (nonspecific), without diagnosis of hypotension 796.3
- Borderline
- hypertension 796.2
- Elevation
- blood pressure (see also Hypertension) 401.9
- reading (incidental) (isolated) (nonspecific), no diagnosis of hypertension 796.2
- High
- artery (arterial) tension (see also Hypertension) 401.9
- without diagnosis of hypertension 796.2
- blood pressure (see also Hypertension) 401.9
- borderline 796.2
- incidental reading (isolated) (nonspecific), no diagnosis of hypertension 796.2
- Labile
- blood pressure 796.2
- Tension
- arterial, high (see also Hypertension) 401.9
- without diagnosis of hypertension 796.2
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