2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I16.0

Hypertensive urgency

• I16.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM I16.0 became effective on October 1, 2024.
• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I16.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 I16.0 may differ.

The following code(s) above I16.0 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to I16.0:

• I00-I99  Diseases of the circulatory system
• I10-I1A  Hypertensive diseases
• I16  Hypertensive crisis

ICD-10-CM I16.0 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):

• 304 Hypertension with mcc
• 305 Hypertension without mcc

Convert I16.0 to ICD-9-CMCode History

• 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): New code
• 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
• 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
• 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
• 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
• 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
• 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
• 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
• 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to I16.0:

• Code First: I5A

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to I16.0:

• Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic) I10
  • urgency I16.0