ICD-10 codes for Nausea and Vomiting

The primary ICD-10-CM codes for nausea and vomiting are R11, R11.0, R11.10. Across all sub-categories, 10 codes are grouped under nausea and vomiting, with 8 marked as billable (specific enough for a medical claim).

There are 10 ICD-10-CM codes related to nausea and vomiting. Of these, 8 are billable specific codes and 2 are non-billable header categories that organize the specific codes underneath them. Header codes cannot be reported on a claim by themselves.

Yes. 8 of the 10 ICD-10-CM codes for nausea and vomiting are billable. Common examples include R11.0 (Nausea); R11.10 (Vomiting, unspecified); R11.11 (Vomiting without nausea). Code to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation.

The most commonly used billable codes for nausea and vomiting include: R11.0 (Nausea); R11.10 (Vomiting, unspecified); R11.11 (Vomiting without nausea). The correct code depends on the documented clinical presentation, including any complications, episode (acute / chronic), and laterality where applicable. Always code to the highest level of specificity supported by the clinical documentation.

No, R11 (Nausea and vomiting) is a non-billable header code. You need to use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

The ICD-10 codes for nausea and vomiting map to at least 25 SNOMED CT concepts. Examples of SNOMED CT concept IDs in this group include 162057007, 422587007, 64581007, 762279002, 102622004. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology used in electronic health records; AutoICD's coding API returns SNOMED CT IDs alongside each ICD-10 code via the include_snomed=true flag.

The ICD-10 codes for nausea and vomiting are linked to 12 UMLS CUIs in the National Library of Medicine's Metathesaurus. Sample CUIs include C0027498, C0027497, C2910396, C0042963, C2910398. UMLS CUIs unify the same concept across SNOMED CT, ICD-10, ICD-11, RxNorm, MeSH, and dozens of other source vocabularies.

Nausea and Vomiting may also be referred to as: nausea, vomiting, emesis, nausea and vomiting. The same ICD-10-CM codes apply regardless of which term appears in the clinical documentation. Synonyms are surfaced by AutoICD's NER pass and mapped to the canonical ICD-10 family above.