R50.84

R50.84: Febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R50.84 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R50.84 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

FNHTR
Posttransfusion fever

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R50.84

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 R50.84

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

R50.82Postprocedural fever

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

FNHTR(febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction)
Fever›posttransfusion
Reaction›febrile nonhemolytic transfusion(FNHTR)
Complication›transfusion›febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under R50.8