ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R00-R09 › R09 Other symptoms and signs involving... › R09.3
Abnormal sputum
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Abnormal sputum
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from R09 Other symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory system
Excludes1 - never coded here
- acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
- respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
- respiratory distress syndrome of newborn (P22.0)
- respiratory failure (J96.-)
- respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Herniation
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Elevated, elevation > GFR
- Gangrene, gangrenous > hernia
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated
- Rupture, ruptured > obstructed
- Hernia, hernial > with > gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > with > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > with > obstruction
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > rupture
- Strangulation, strangulated > rupture
- Hernia, hernial > with > incarceration
- Hernia, hernial > with > strangulation
- Hernia, hernial > intestine, intestinal
- Test, tests, testing > blood-drug > positive
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive > with gangrene
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > finding
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated > with gangrene
- Test, tests, testing > blood-alcohol > positive
- Rupture, ruptured > nontraumatic, meaning hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > stomach due to hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > intestine > with hernia
- Elevated, elevation > finding on laboratory examination
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > fecal > with hernia
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > drugs
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > toxins
- Strangulation, strangulated > stomach due to hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > intestine > with hernia > with gangrene
- Sputum > abnormal
- Sputum > excessive
- Excess, excessive, excessively > sputum
Showing 40 of 42 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R09.0 | Asphyxia and hypoxemia | Not billable |
| R09.1 | Pleurisy | Valid |
| R09.2 | Respiratory arrest | Valid |
| R09.8 | Other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems | Not billable |
| R09.A | Foreign body sensation of the circulatory and respiratory system | Not billable |