Is R10.824 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R10.824 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R10.824 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19).

R10.824

R10.824 — Left lower quadrant rebound abdominal tenderness

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMleft

R10.824 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for left lower quadrant rebound abdominal tenderness. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R10.824 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R10.824 is named in 7 Medicare coverage policies — 7 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
A58720Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing

How R10.824 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R10.824.

Tenderness, abdominal›rebound›left lower quadrant

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R10.82. If R10.824 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R10.824

Is R10.824 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R10.824 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R10.824 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19).