R57.1 — Hypovolemic shock
R57.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hypovolemic shock. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
R57.1 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 2 Septicemia, Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/Shock0.500 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
R57.1 is named in 13 Medicare coverage policies — 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52868Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
- A56500Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
How R57.1 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 R57.1.
- Shock›hypovolemic
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R57. If R57.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R57.1
- Is R57.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R57.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R57.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block General symptoms and signs (R50-R69).