R05.8

R05.8: Other specified cough

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R05.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified cough. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R05.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R05.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R05: Cough

paroxysmal cough due to Bordetella pertussis (A37.0-)
smoker's cough (J41.0)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above R05.8

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on R05: Cough

cough with hemorrhage (R04.2)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R05.8 is named in 10 Medicare coverage policies: 10 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
A56621Billing and Coding: Swallowing Studies for Dysphagia
A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Cough›bronchial
Cough›laryngeal, spasmodic
Cough›specified NEC
Syncope›tussive

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.