ICD-10-CM · Chapter 18 · R00–R99
R10.0
Acute abdomen
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
Quick facts
- Code
- R10.0
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 18 — Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
- Category
- R10 — Abdominal and pelvic pain
- Specificity
- 4 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM R10.0 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of acute abdomen. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in R10
- R10Abdominal and pelvic pain
- R10.1Pain localized to upper abdomen
- R10.10Upper abdominal pain, unspecified
- R10.11Right upper quadrant pain
- R10.12Left upper quadrant pain
- R10.13Epigastric pain
- R10.2Pelvic and perineal pain
- R10.20Pelvic and perineal pain unspecified side
- R10.21Pelvic and perineal pain right side
- R10.22Pelvic and perineal pain left side
- R10.23Pelvic and perineal pain bilateral
- R10.24Suprapubic pain
- R10.3Pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen
- R10.30Lower abdominal pain, unspecified
- R10.31Right lower quadrant pain
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