R09.81

The ICD-10-CM code for nasal congestion is R09.81. The full clinical description is "Nasal congestion". R09.81 is a billable/specific code that can be used on insurance claims and medical billing.

ICD-10-CM code R09.81 represents “Nasal congestion”. It is classified under Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings and is a billable/specific code that can be used on a claim.

Yes, R09.81 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code and can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a medical claim.

R09.81 is in Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings (codes R00-R99).

R09.81 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80); respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81); respiratory distress syndrome of newborn (P22.0); and 2 more.

R09.81 maps to 3 SNOMED CT concepts: 68235000, 82297005, 418092006. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology used in electronic health records.

R09.81 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C0027424. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) codes describe how conditions like nasal congestion affect a person's functioning — body functions, activities, participation, and environmental factors. AutoICD provides ICF Core Sets for 12+ conditions and can map clinical text to ICF categories automatically. Browse the ICF directory to explore functioning codes.

There is no direct ICD-11 mapping available for R09.81 in the WHO crosswalk tables. This may mean the concept is classified differently in ICD-11. Use the ICD-10 to ICD-11 converter to search for related codes.