R10.8Other abdominal pain

R10.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other abdominal pain. It belongs to category R10 (abdominal and pelvic pain), block R10-R19 (symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen) and chapter 18 (symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 6 subcodes must be used instead.

Within R10, choose R10.8 (Other abdominal pain) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: acute abdomen (R10.0), pain localized to upper abdomen (R10.1), pelvic and perineal pain (R10.2), pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen (R10.3), unspecified abdominal pain (R10.9) and pain localized to flank (R10.A).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: R10.81 (tenderness), R10.82 (tenderness), R10.83 (colic), R10.84 (pain), R10.85 (sites) and R10.8A (tenderness).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.