R85
R85: Abnormal findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R85 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for abnormal findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with R85
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead R85
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- R85.0Abnormal level of enzymes in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.1Abnormal level of hormones in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.2Abnormal level of other drugs, medicaments and biological substances in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.3Abnormal level of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.4Abnormal immunological findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.5Abnormal microbiological findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.6Abnormal cytological findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.7Abnormal histological findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.8Other abnormal findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
- R85.9Unspecified abnormal finding in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity