R82.8
R82.8 — Abnormal findings on cytological and histological examination of urine
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R82.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for abnormal findings on cytological and histological examination of urine. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with R82.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R82.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R82.8 alone.
- N39.0Urinary tract infection, site not specified
Risk adjustment
R82.8 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.
Code to one of these instead R82.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R82. If R82.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- R82.0Chyluria
- R82.1Myoglobinuria
- R82.2Biliuria
- R82.3Hemoglobinuria
- R82.4Acetonuria
- R82.5Elevated urine levels of drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- R82.6Abnormal urine levels of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source
- R82.7Abnormal findings on microbiological examination of urine
- R82.9Other and unspecified abnormal findings in urine
Questions about R82.8
- Is R82.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. R82.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does R82.8 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).