ICD-10-CM · Chapter 18 · R00–R99
R10.811
Right upper quadrant abdominal tenderness
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
Quick facts
- Code
- R10.811
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 18 — Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
- Category
- R10 — Abdominal and pelvic pain
- Specificity
- 6 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM R10.811 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of right upper quadrant abdominal tenderness. 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
- R10.0Acute abdomen
- 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
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