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R50.82

Postprocedural fever

Billable

Code Hierarchy

R50R50.8R50.82

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R50-R69 - General symptoms and signs

Coding Guidelines

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with R50.82

  • postprocedural infection (T81.4-)
  • R50.84 - posttransfusion fever (R50.84)
  • R50.83 - postvaccination (postimmunization) fever (R50.83)

Related Codes

R50.81Billable

Fever presenting with conditions classified elsewhere

R50.83Billable

Postvaccination fever

R50.84Billable

Febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction

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