R19.12

R19.12: Hyperactive bowel sounds

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R19.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hyperactive bowel sounds. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R19.12 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R19.12

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R19: Other symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen

acute abdomen (R10.0)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

R19.12 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Hyperactive, hyperactivity›bowel sounds
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›bowel sounds›hyperactive

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.