Diagnosis Code

R04.0 EPISTAXIS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R04.0

Short Description: Epistaxis

Long Description: Epistaxis

The code R04.0 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
      • Hemorrhage from respiratory passages (R04)
        • R04.0 Epistaxis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Anterior epistaxis
  • Bleeding from nose
  • Bleeding from nose
  • Bleeding from nose
  • Bleeding from nose
  • Bleeding from nose
  • Blood in nasal cavity
  • Contents of anterior nasal cavity - finding
  • Evidence of recent epistaxis
  • Hemorrhagic nasal discharge
  • Injury of head with rhinorrhagia
  • Maternal perinatal epistaxis
  • Posterior epistaxis
  • Post-surgical epistaxis
  • Recurrent bleeding of nose
  • Recurrent hemorrhage
  • Traumatic epistaxis
  • Traumatic epistaxis

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R04.0 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Epistaxis With Mcc (150)
  • Epistaxis Without Mcc (151)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R04.0 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Hemorrhage from nose
    • Nosebleed

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R04.0 Right Arrow 784.7 Epistaxis

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R04 Hemorrhage from respiratory passages
R04.1 Hemorrhage from throat
R04.2 Hemoptysis
R04.8 Hemorrhage from other sites in respiratory passages
R04.81 Acute idiopathic pulmonary hemorrhage in infants
R04.89 Hemorrhage from other sites in respiratory passages
R04.9 Hemorrhage from respiratory passages, unspecified


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023