R39.12 — Poor urinary stream
R39.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for poor urinary stream. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Weak urinary stream
Risk adjustment
R39.12 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
R39.12 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56802Billing and Coding: Urodynamics
- A57050Billing and Coding: Post-Void Residual Urine and/or Bladder Capacity by Ultrasound
- A57455Billing and Coding: Urodynamics
How R39.12 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 R39.12.
- Micturition›poor stream
- Poor›urinary stream
- Weak, weakening, weakness›urinary stream
- Disorder›micturition NEC›poor stream
- Urine›stream›weak
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R39.1. If R39.12 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R39.12
- Is R39.12 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R39.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R39.12 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 genitourinary system (R30-R39).