R82.5
R82.5 — Elevated urine levels of drugs, medicaments and biological substances
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
R82.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for elevated urine levels of drugs, medicaments and biological substances. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Elevated urine levels of catecholamines
- Elevated urine levels of indoleacetic acid
- Elevated urine levels of 17-ketosteroids
- Elevated urine levels of steroids
Risk adjustment
R82.5 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.
How R82.5 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 R82.5.
- Elevated, elevation›indoleacetic acid
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›17-ketosteroids, elevated
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›catecholamines
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›indoleacetic acid, elevated
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›vanillylmandelic acid, elevated(VMA)
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›urine›drugs
- Elevated, elevation›urine level of›17-ketosteroids
- Elevated, elevation›urine level of›catecholamine
- Elevated, elevation›urine level of›indoleacetic acid
- Elevated, elevation›urine level of›steroids
- Elevated, elevation›urine level of›vanillylmandelic acid(VMA)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R82. If R82.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- R82.0Chyluria
- R82.1Myoglobinuria
- R82.2Biliuria
- R82.3Hemoglobinuria
- R82.4Acetonuria
- R82.6Abnormal urine levels of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source
- R82.7Abnormal findings on microbiological examination of urine
- R82.8Abnormal findings on cytological and histological examination of urine
- R82.9Other and unspecified abnormal findings in urine
Questions about R82.5
- Is R82.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R82.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R82.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Abnormal findings on examination of urine, without diagnosis (R80-R82).