R68.8Other general symptoms and signs

R68.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other general symptoms and signs. It belongs to category R68 (other general symptoms and signs), block R50-R69 (general symptoms and signs) 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 5 subcodes must be used instead.

Within R68, choose R68.8 (Other general symptoms and signs) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: hypothermia, not associated with low environmental temperature (R68.0), nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy (R68.1), dry mouth, unspecified (R68.2) and Clubbing of fingers (R68.3).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: R68.81 (satiety), R68.82 (libido), R68.83 (fever)), R68.84 (pain) and R68.89 (signs).

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