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.

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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

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above R82.5

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on R82: Other and unspecified abnormal findings in urine

hematuria (R31.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

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)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.