I70.26 — Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene
I70.26 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
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Includes
Conditions this code covers.
Other codes that can never be billed with I70.26
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at I70.26. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading I70.26 alone.
- I96Gangrene, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
I70.26 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead I70.26
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- I70.261Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, right leg
- I70.262Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, left leg
- I70.263Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, bilateral legs
- I70.268Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, other extremity
- I70.269Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, unspecified extremity
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I70.2. If I70.26 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I70.20Unspecified atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities
- I70.21Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication
- I70.22Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with rest pain
- I70.23Atherosclerosis of native arteries of right leg with ulceration
- I70.24Atherosclerosis of native arteries of left leg with ulceration
- I70.25Atherosclerosis of native arteries of other extremities with ulceration
- I70.29Other atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities
Questions about I70.26
- Is I70.26 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I70.26 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I70.26 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries (I70-I79).