R85.611

Quick facts

Code

R85.611

Type

Billable code

ICD-10-CM chapter

Chapter 18 — Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings

Category

R85 — Abnormal findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity

Specificity

6 characters

ICD-10-CM R85.611 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of anus (asc-h). 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.