icd 10 code for 250.72

250.72 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of diabetes with peripheral circulatory disorders, type ii or unspecified type, uncontrolled. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

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ICD-10 Equivalent of 250.72

As of October 2015, ICD-9 codes are no longer used for medical coding. Instead, use the following two equivalent ICD-10-CM codes, which are an approximate match to ICD-9 code 250.72:

Historical Information for ICD-9 Code 250.72

Billable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis.

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250.72 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of diabetes with peripheral circulatory disorders, type ii or unspecified type, uncontrolled. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

Convert 250.72 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

Information for Patients

Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. With type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin.

ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.