Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits may be appended to a set of information bits on a per-group basis prior to encoding using an error correcting code. The amount of CRC bits appended to each group of information bits may be based on the priority of the group of information bits. For example, the priority may be based on the type of information conveyed by the group of information bits. For example, for a video stream, information bits conveying low frequency information may have a higher priority than information bits conveying high frequency information, as the low frequency bits may be more important to user perception/experience of the video. The transmitting device and the receiving device may negotiate the CRC configuration (e.g., the CRC bits per-group and the locations of the groups) so that the receiving device can verify the information bits.