Is R82.91 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R82.91 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R82.91 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).

What cannot be coded together with R82.91?

R82.91 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

R82.91

R82.91 — Other chromoabnormalities of urine

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R82.91 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other chromoabnormalities of urine. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

hemoglobinuria (R82.3)
myoglobinuria (R82.1)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Chromoconversion (dipstick)
Idiopathic dipstick converts positive for blood with no cellular forms in sediment

Risk adjustment

R82.91 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 R82.91 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 R82.91.

Chromoconversion
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›urine›specified substance NEC›chromoabnormality NEC

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R82.9. If R82.91 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R82.91

Is R82.91 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R82.91 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R82.91 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).
What cannot be coded together with R82.91?: R82.91 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.