Is R87.621 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R87.621 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R87.621 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).

R87.621

R87.621 — Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of vagina (ASC-H)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R87.621 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of vagina (asc-h). It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R87.621 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 R87.621 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 R87.621.

ASC-H›vagina
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›Papanicolaou›vagina›atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion(ASC-H)

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R87.62. If R87.621 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R87.621

Is R87.621 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R87.621 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R87.621 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).