R65.2 - Severe sepsis

• Applicable to Severe sepsis
• The 2025 edition of ICD10-CM R65.2 became effective on October 1, 2024.
• This is the American ICD10-CM version of R65.2 - other international versions of ICD10 R65.2 may differ.
• R65.2 is a Non-Billable / Non-Specific ICD10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• R65.2 Code should not be used for billing or reimbursement purposes as there are multiple ICD-10 CM codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.

Code Additional Code

• code to identify specific acute organ dysfunction, such as:
• acute kidney failure (N17.-)
• acute respiratory failure (J96.0-)
• critical illness myopathy (G72.81)
• critical illness polyneuropathy (G62.81)
• disseminated intravascular coagulopathy [DIC] (D65)
• encephalopathy (metabolic) (septic) (G93.41)
• hepatic failure (K72.0-)

 Inclusion Term

• 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

codefirst

• 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)

The following codes above R65.2 contain annotation back-references that may be applicable to R65.2:

Chapter: R00-R99 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R50-R69 General symptoms and signs

Category: R65 Symptoms and signs specifically associated with systemic inflammation and infection

  

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