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R10Abdominal and pelvic pain

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R10 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for abdominal and pelvic pain. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • renal colic (N23)

Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

  • costovertebral (angle) tenderness (R39.85)
  • dorsalgia (M54.-)
  • flatulence and related conditions (R14.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with R10

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R10. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R10 alone.

  • K30Functional dyspepsia
  • R52Pain, unspecified
  • R68.1Nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy
  • R19.3Abdominal rigidity
  • R10.0Acute abdomen
  • R10.83Colic
  • R10.84Generalized abdominal pain
  • R10.85Abdominal pain of multiple sites

Risk adjustment

R10 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.

The condition this code belongs to

Every code for the condition on one page, which one applies when, and the mistake coders make with it.

Code history

R10 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Code to one of these instead R10

7 child codes. Green means billable.

Questions about R10

Is R10 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
No. R10 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does R10 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 digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19).
What cannot be coded together with R10?
R10 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.
ICD-10-CMFY2026-Apr· effective April 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release — see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.