R93.41 — Abnormal radiologic findings on diagnostic imaging of renal pelvis, ureter, or bladder
R93.41 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for abnormal radiologic findings on diagnostic imaging of renal pelvis, ureter, or bladder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Filling defect of bladder found on diagnostic imaging
- Filling defect of renal pelvis found on diagnostic imaging
- Filling defect of ureter found on diagnostic imaging
Risk adjustment
R93.41 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
R93.41 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies — 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A55336Billing and Coding: Retroperitoneal Ultrasound
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56775Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Angiography
How R93.41 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 R93.41.
- Filling defect›bladder
- Filling defect›ureter
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›diagnostic imaging›bladder
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›diagnostic imaging›renal pelvis
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›diagnostic imaging›ureter
- Defect, defective›filling›bladder
- Defect, defective›filling›renal pelvis
- Defect, defective›filling›ureter
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R93.4. If R93.41 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R93.41
- Is R93.41 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R93.41 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R93.41 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Abnormal findings on diagnostic imaging and in function studies, without diagnosis (R90-R94).