ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R83-R89 › R85.61 Abnormal cytologic smear of anus › R85.616
R85.616
Satisfactory anal smear but lacking transformation zone
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Satisfactory anal smear but lacking transformation zone
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 R85 Abnormal findings in specimens from digestive organs and abdominal cavity
Excludes1 - never coded here
- cloudy peritoneal dialysis effluent (R88.0)
- fecal abnormalities (R19.5)
Includes
- abnormal findings in peritoneal fluid
- abnormal findings in saliva
Inherited from the R83-R89 section Abnormal findings on examination of other body fluids, substances and tissues, without diagnosis (R83-R89)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother (O28.-)
- diagnostic abnormal findings classified elsewhere - see Alphabetical Index
Excludes2 - not included here
- abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis (R70-R79)
- abnormal findings on examination of urine, without diagnosis (R80-R82)
- abnormal tumor markers (R97.-)
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
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > cytology > female genital organs
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > cytology > anus > satisfactory anal smear but lacking transformation zone
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > Papanicolaou > anus > satisfactory anal smear but lacking transformation zone
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R85.610 | Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of anus (ASC-US) | Valid |
| R85.611 | Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of anus (ASC-H) | Valid |
| R85.612 | Low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of anus (LGSIL) | Valid |
| R85.613 | High grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic smear of anus (HGSIL) | Valid |
| R85.614 | Cytologic evidence of malignancy on smear of anus | Valid |
| R85.615 | Unsatisfactory cytologic smear of anus | Valid |
| R85.618 | Other abnormal cytological findings on specimens from anus | Valid |
| R85.619 | Unspecified abnormal cytological findings in specimens from anus | Valid |