D75.1 Secondary polycythemia

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Acquired polycythemia
• Emotional polycythemia
• Erythrocytosis NOS
• Hypoxemic polycythemia
• Nephrogenous polycythemia
• Polycythemia due to erythropoietin
• Polycythemia due to fall in plasma volume
• Polycythemia due to high altitude
• Polycythemia due to stress
• Polycythemia NOS
• Relative polycythemia

Excludes1 (never code together)

• polycythemia neonatorum (P61.1)
• polycythemia vera (D45)

Applies from D75 Other and unspecified diseases of blood and blood-forming organs

Excludes2 (not included here)

• acute lymphadenitis (L04.-)
• chronic lymphadenitis (I88.1)
• enlarged lymph nodes (R59.-)
• hypergammaglobulinemia NOS (D89.2)
• lymphadenitis NOS (I88.9)
• mesenteric lymphadenitis (acute) (chronic) (I88.0)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 814-816 in MDC 16.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 289.0 Polycythemia, secondary

Code annotations containing back-references to D75.1

Back-references to D75.1

• Type 1 Excludes: D45 Polycythemia vera ("secondary polycythemia (D75.1)")
• Type 1 Excludes: D58.2 Other hemoglobinopathies ("high-altitude polycythemia (D75.1)")
• Type 1 Excludes: R71 Abnormality of red blood cells ("polycythemia NOS (D75.1)")
• Type 1 Excludes: R71 Abnormality of red blood cells ("secondary polycythemia (D75.1)")
• Type 2 Excludes: T70.2 Other and unspecified effects of high altitude ("polycythemia due to high altitude (D75.1)")

Diagnosis Index entries for D75.1

• Disease, diseased › Gaisböck's (polycythemia hypertonica)
• Effect, adverse › high altitude NEC › polycythemia
• Erythremia (acute) › secondary
• Erythrocytosis (megalosplenic) (secondary)
• Erythrocytosis (megalosplenic) (secondary) › secondary
• Erythrocytosis (megalosplenic) (secondary) › stress
• Gaisböck's disease (polycythemia hypertonica)
• High › altitude effects › polycythemia
• Mountain › sickness › with polycythemia , acquired (acute)
• Polycythemia (secondary)
• Polycythemia (secondary) › acquired
• Polycythemia (secondary) › due to › erythropoietin
• Polycythemia (secondary) › due to › fall in plasma volume
• Polycythemia (secondary) › due to › high altitude
• Polycythemia (secondary) › due to › stress
• Polycythemia (secondary) › emotional
• Polycythemia (secondary) › erythropoietin
• Polycythemia (secondary) › Gaisböck's (hypertonica)
• Polycythemia (secondary) › high altitude
• Polycythemia (secondary) › hypertonica
• Polycythemia (secondary) › hypoxemic
• Polycythemia (secondary) › nephrogenous
• Polycythemia (secondary) › relative
• Polycythemia (secondary) › secondary
• Polycythemia (secondary) › spurious
• Polycythemia (secondary) › stress
• Polycytosis cryptogenica
• Pseudopolycythemia
• Sickness › mountain › acute
• Stress › polycythemia
• Syndrome › Gaisböck's
• Syndrome › hyperviscosity ( of serum) › polycythemic

Nearby codes

• D75 Other and unspecified diseases of blood and blood-forming organs
• D75.0 Familial erythrocytosis
• D75.1 Secondary polycythemia (this code)
• D75.8 Other specified diseases of blood and blood-forming organs
• D75.81 Myelofibrosis
• D75.82 Heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
• D75.821 Non-immune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
• D75.822 Immune-mediated heparin-induced thrombocytopenia