ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R10-R19 › R10 Abdominal and pelvic pain › R10.0
Acute abdomen
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 Acute abdomen
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 R10 Abdominal and pelvic pain
Excludes1 - never coded here
- renal colic (N23)
Excludes2 - not included here
- costovertebral (angle) tenderness (R39.85)
- dorsalgia (M54.-)
- flatulence and related conditions (R14.-)
Inherited from the R10-R19 section Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19)
Excludes2 - not included here
- congenital or infantile pylorospasm (Q40.0)
- gastrointestinal hemorrhage (K92.0-K92.2)
- intestinal obstruction (K56.-)
- newborn gastrointestinal hemorrhage (P54.0-P54.3)
- newborn intestinal obstruction (P76.-)
- pylorospasm (K31.3)
- signs and symptoms involving the urinary system (R30-R39)
- symptoms referable to female genital organs (N94.-)
- symptoms referable to male genital organs (N48-N50)
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.
- Pain
- Enteralgia
- Gastralgia
- Gastrodynia
- Abdominalgia
- Pain > cecum
- Pain > colon
- Pain > gastric
- Pain > stomach
- Cramp > abdominal
- Cramp > intestinal
- Distress > abdomen
- Syndrome > complex regional pain
- Spasm, spastic, spasticity > viscera
- Acute > abdomen
- Crisis > abdomen
- Abdomen, abdominal > acute
- Syndrome > acute abdominal
- Syndrome > abdominal > acute
- Pain > abdominal > severe with abdominal rigidity
- Pain > abdominal > generalized > with acute abdomen
- Rigid, rigidity > abdominal > with severe abdominal pain
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R10.1 | Pain localized to upper abdomen | Not billable |
| R10.2 | Pelvic and perineal pain | Not billable |
| R10.3 | Pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen | Not billable |
| R10.8 | Other abdominal pain | Not billable |
| R10.9 | Unspecified abdominal pain | Valid |
| R10.A | Pain localized to flank | Not billable |