R87.618 — Other abnormal cytological findings on specimens from cervix uteri
R87.618 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other abnormal cytological findings on specimens from cervix uteri. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
R87.618 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.
Medicare coverage
R87.618 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57689Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
How R87.618 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 R87.618.
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›Papanicolaou cervix›non-atypical endometrial cells
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›Papanicolaou›cervix›non-atypical endometrial cells
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›Papanicolaou›cervix›specified NEC
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›specimen›female genital organs›cytology›cervix›non-atypical endometrial cells
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›specimen›female genital organs›cytology›cervix›specified NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R87.61. If R87.618 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- R87.610Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-US)
- R87.611Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-H)
- R87.612Low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of cervix (LGSIL)
- R87.613High grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of cervix (HGSIL)
- R87.614Cytologic evidence of malignancy on smear of cervix
- R87.615Unsatisfactory cytologic smear of cervix
- R87.616Satisfactory cervical smear but lacking transformation zone
- R87.619Unspecified abnormal cytological findings in specimens from cervix uteri
Questions about R87.618
- Is R87.618 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R87.618 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R87.618 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 other body fluids, substances and tissues, without diagnosis (R83-R89).