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Category · FY2027

R88 Abnormal findings in other body fluids and substances

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R88 is not billable. The category heads 2 billable codes in FY2027: the 2 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisspecified body fluid NEC → R88.8
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisbody fluid or substance, specified NEC → R88.8
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosiscloudydialysis effluent → R88.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R83-R89 Abnormal findings on examination of other body fluids, substances and tissues, without diagnosis (R83-R89)
  3. R88 Abnormal findings in other body fluids and substances
Billable codes
2
Subdivisions
2
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
3

Codes in R88

  1. R88.0
    Cloudy (hemodialysis) (peritoneal) dialysis effluent
    Billable
  2. R88.8
    Abnormal findings in other body fluids and substances
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Block R83-R89 instructions (Excludes1 2, Excludes2 3): printed on the block page.

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

Index entries

  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisbody fluid or substance, specified NEC → R88.8
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosisspecified body fluid NEC → R88.8
  • Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosiscloudydialysis effluent → R88.0

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