Is R04.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. R04.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does R04.8 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09).

R04.8

R04.8 — Hemorrhage from other sites in respiratory passages

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R04.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hemorrhage from other sites in respiratory passages. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Other codes that can never be billed with R04.8

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R04.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R04.8 alone.

P26Pulmonary hemorrhage originating in the perinatal period
J84.03Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis

Risk adjustment

R04.8 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 R04.8

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R04. If R04.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R04.8

Is R04.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. R04.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does R04.8 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09).