Is R09.A1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R09.A1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R09.A1 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).

R09.A1

R09.A1 — Foreign body sensation, nose

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R09.A1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for foreign body sensation, nose. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R09.A1 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.

Medicare coverage

R09.A1 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

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How R09.A1 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R09.A1.

Sensation›foreign body›nose

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R09.A. If R09.A1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R09.A1

Is R09.A1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R09.A1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R09.A1 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).