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Category · FY2027

R33 Retention of urine

  • Header · not billable

R33 is not billable. The category heads 3 billable codes in FY2027: the 3 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Retentionurine → R33.9
  • Urineretention or stasis → R33.9
  • Incompletebladder, emptying → R33.9

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R30-R39 Symptoms and signs involving the genitourinary system (R30-R39)
  3. R33 Retention of urine
Billable codes
3
Subdivisions
3
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
9

Codes in R33

  1. R33.0
    Drug induced retention of urine
    Billable
    Use additional code 1

    Use additional code

    • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5) T36 T50
  2. R33.8
    Other retention of urine
    Billable
    Code first 2

    Code first

    • , if applicable, any causal condition, such as:
    • enlarged prostate (N40.1) N40.1
  3. R33.9
    Retention of urine, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At R33

Excludes1

  • psychogenic retention of urine (F45.8) F45.8

Notes that also apply

Chapter 18 instructions (Notes 9, Excludes2 4): printed on the chapter 18 page.

Index entries

  • Incompletebladder, emptying → R33.9
  • Retentionurine → R33.9
  • Urineretention or stasis → R33.9
  • Retentionurinedrug-induced → R33.0
  • Retentionurineorganic → R33.8
  • Retentionurinespecified NEC → R33.8
  • Urineretention or stasisorganic → R33.8
  • Retentionurineorganicdrug-induced → R33.0
  • Urineretention or stasisorganicdrug-induced → R33.0

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