icd 10 code for 790.4

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ICD-10 Equivalent of 790.4

As of October 2015, ICD-9 codes are no longer used for medical coding. Instead, use this equivalent ICD-10-CM code, which is an exact match to ICD-9 code 790.4:

Historical Information for ICD-9 Code 790.4

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

Not Valid for Submission

790.4 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of nonspecific elevation of levels of transaminase or lactic acid dehydrogenase [ldh]. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

Convert 790.4 to ICD-10

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

Information for Medical Professionals

References found for the code 790.4 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:

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.

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