Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

Excludes2 — not included here

The conditions below are not part of this code, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, this code and the excluded code may both be reported.

• autoimmune disease (systemic) NOS (M35.9)
• certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
• complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
• congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
• endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
• human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
• injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
• neoplasms (C00-D49)
• symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)