R86.6 - Abnormal cytological findings in specimens from male genital organs
| ICD-10: | R86.6 |
| Short Description: | Abnormal cytolog findings in specmn from male genital organs |
| Long Description: | Abnormal cytological findings in specimens from male genital organs |
| Status: | Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
| Code Classification: |
R86.6 is a billable ICD-10 code used to specify a medical diagnosis of abnormal cytological findings in specimens from male genital organs. The code is valid during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
This code is applicable to male patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-male patient.
According to ICD-10-CM guidelines this code should not to be used as a principal diagnosis code when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Abnormal cytological finding in specimen from male genital organ
- Necrospermia
- Pyospermia
- Semen exam: abnormal
- Semen examination:moderate fertility
- Semen fertility - finding
- Sperm deformed
- Sperm measurement - finding
- Sperm measurement - finding
- Sperm measurement - finding
- Sperm measurement - finding
- Sperm measurement - finding
- Sperm morphology - finding
- Sperm morphology - finding
- Sperm morphology - finding
- Sperm morphology - no normal forms
- Sperm morphology very low: less than 30 percent normal
- Sperm motile no progression
- Sperm motility 6-8 hours low 10-30 percent
- Sperm motility 6-8 hours very low less than 10 percent
- Sperm motility at 6-8 hours moderate 30-40 percent
- Sperm non-motile
- Sperm non-motile at 6-8 hours
- Sperm number - finding
- Sperm number - finding
- Sperm number - finding
- Sperm number/cc low: 10-30 million
- Sperm number/cc moderate: 30-60 million
- Sperm number/cc very low: 0-10 million
- Sperm progression slow
- Sperm: abnormal constituents
- Spermatozoa abnormal
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index:
- - Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - See Also: Anomaly;
- - Papanicolaou (smear)
- - prostatic secretions - R86.6
- - seminal fluid - R86.6
- - specimen
- - male genital organs (prostatic secretions) (semen) - R86.9
- - cytology - R86.6
- - male genital organs (prostatic secretions) (semen) - R86.9
- - Papanicolaou (smear)
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Diagnoses for males only - The Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies between a patient’s sex and any diagnosis on the patient’s record, these edits apply to MALES only .
Convert to ICD-9 Code
| Source ICD-10 Code | Target ICD-9 Code | |
|---|---|---|
| R86.6 | 792.2 - Abn findings-semen | |
| Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code. | ||
Code History
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
