R50.8

R50.8: Other specified fever

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R50.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified fever. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R50.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R50: Fever of other and unknown origin

chills without fever (R68.83)
febrile convulsions (R56.0-)
fever of unknown origin during labor (O75.2)
fever of unknown origin in newborn (P81.9)
hypothermia due to illness (R68.0)
malignant hyperthermia due to anesthesia (T88.3)
puerperal pyrexia NOS (O86.4)

Other codes that can never be billed with R50.8

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

O86.0Infection of obstetric surgical wound
R50.2Drug induced fever
R50.82Postprocedural fever

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead R50.8

4 child codes. Green means billable.