ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R10-R19 › R15 Fecal incontinence › R15.2
Fecal urgency
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 2011 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.
- FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Fecal urgency
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 R15 Fecal incontinence
Excludes1 - never coded here
- fecal incontinence of nonorganic origin (F98.1)
Includes
- encopresis NOS
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.
- Fecal > urgency
- Urgency > fecal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R15.0 | Incomplete defecation | Valid |
| R15.1 | Fecal smearing | Valid |
| R15.9 | Full incontinence of feces | Valid |