Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 289.0
Polycythemia, secondary
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 289.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 289.0 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 289.0 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM D75.1 Secondary polycythemia
Approximate Synonyms
  • Erythrocytosis
  • Erythrocytosis due to tobacco use or abuse
  • Erythrocytosis secondary to tobacco use
  • Erythrocytosis secondary to tobacco use or abuse
  • Secondary polycythemia
289.0 Excludes
Applies To
  • High-oxygen-affinity hemoglobin
  • Polycythemia:
    • acquired
    • benign
    • due to:
      • fall in plasma volume
      • high altitude
    • emotional
    • erythropoietin
    • hypoxemic
    • nephrogenous
    • relative
    • spurious
    • stress
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 289.0:
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Gaisböck's (polycythemia hypertonica) 289.0
  • Effect, adverse NEC
  • Erythremia (acute) (M9841/3) 207.0
    • secondary 289.0
  • Erythrocytosis (megalosplenic)
    • secondary 289.0
    • stress 289.0
  • Gaisböck's disease or syndrome (polycythemia hypertonica) 289.0
  • Hemoglobin - see also condition
    • high-oxygen-affinity 289.0
  • High
    • oxygen-affinity hemoglobin 289.0
  • Hyperviscosity (of serum) (syndrome) NEC 273.3
    • polycythemic 289.0
  • Leukoerythrosis 289.0
  • Mountain
    • sickness 993.2
      • with polycythemia, acquired 289.0
      • acute 289.0
  • Polycythemia (primary) (rubra) (vera) (M9950/1) 238.4
    • acquired 289.0
    • benign 289.0
    • due to
      • donor twin 776.4
      • fall in plasma volume 289.0
      • high altitude 289.0
      • maternal-fetal transfusion 776.4
      • stress 289.0
    • emotional 289.0
    • erythropoietin 289.0
    • Gaisböck's (hypertonica) 289.0
    • high altitude 289.0
    • hypertonica 289.0
    • hypoxemic 289.0
    • nephrogenous 289.0
    • relative 289.0
    • secondary 289.0
    • spurious 289.0
    • stress 289.0
  • Polycytosis cryptogenica 289.0
  • Pseudopolycythemia 289.0
  • Sickness
    • mountain 993.2
      • acute 289.0
  • Stress 308.9
    • polycythemia 289.0
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Gaisböck's (polycythemia hypertonica) 289.0
    • hyperviscosity (of serum) NEC 273.3
      • polycythemic 289.0
      • sclerothymic 282.8
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