ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R10-R19 › R19.1 Abnormal bowel sounds › R19.15
Other abnormal bowel sounds
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 Other abnormal bowel sounds
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 R19 Other symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen
Excludes1 - never coded here
- acute abdomen (R10.0)
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.
- 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
- Murmur > abdominal
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > bowel sounds
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R19.11 | Absent bowel sounds | Valid |
| R19.12 | Hyperactive bowel sounds | Valid |