R68.81 — Early satiety
R68.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for early satiety. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
R68.81 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
R68.81 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies — 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A54969Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A57307Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A57478Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A57668Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
How R68.81 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 R68.81.
- Early satiety
- Satiety, early
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R68.8. If R68.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R68.81
- Is R68.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R68.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R68.81 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).