R65.2 SEVERE SEPSIS

Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R65.2

Short Description: Severe sepsis

Long Description: Severe sepsis

The code R65.2 is NOT VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
- General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
  - Symp and signs specifically assoc w sys inflam and infct (R65)
    - R65.2 Severe sepsis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

The code R65.2 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

Inclusion Terms:
- Infection with associated acute organ dysfunction
- Sepsis with acute organ dysfunction
- Sepsis with multiple organ dysfunction
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome due to infectious process with acute organ dysfunction
Code First:
- underlying infection, such as:
- infection following a procedure (@T81.4*-)
- infections following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection (@T80.2*-)
- puerperal sepsis (@O85*)
- sepsis following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion (@O03.87*)
- sepsis following ectopic and molar pregnancy (@O08.82*)
- sepsis following incomplete spontaneous abortion (@O03.37*)
- sepsis following (induced) termination of pregnancy (@O04.87*)
- sepsis NOS (@A41.9*)

ICD-10 Code	ICD-10 Description
R65	Symptoms and signs specifically associated with systemic inflammation and infection
R65.1	Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) of non-infectious origin
R65.10	Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) of non-infectious origin without acute organ dysfunction
R65.11	Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) of non-infectious origin with acute organ dysfunction
R65.20	Severe sepsis without septic shock
R65.21	Severe sepsis with septic shock

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