R10.A1 ICD-10-CM Code: Flank pain, right side
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.
- MS-DRG 391 — ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 06)
- MS-DRG 392 — ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 06)
A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for R10.A1 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- renal colic (N23)
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen (R10.3-)
- pain localized to upper abdomen (R10.1-)
- costovertebral (angle) tenderness (R39.85)
- dorsalgia (M54.-)
- flatulence and related conditions (R14.-)
- congenital or infantile pylorospasm (Q40.0)
- gastrointestinal hemorrhage (K92.0-K92.2)
- intestinal obstruction (K56.-)
- newborn gastrointestinal hemorrhage (P54.0-P54.3)
- newborn intestinal obstruction (P76.-)
- pylorospasm (K31.3)
- signs and symptoms involving the urinary system (R30-R39)
- symptoms referable to female genital organs (N94.-)
- symptoms referable to male genital organs (N48-N50)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to R10.A1 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- R10.85 — Abdominal pain of multiple sites
- R10.8A — Flank tenderness
- R10.8A1 — Right flank tenderness
- R10.8A2 — Left flank tenderness
- R10.8A3 — Suprapubic tenderness
- R10.8A9 — Flank tenderness, unspecified
- R10.9 — Unspecified abdominal pain
- R10.A — Pain localized to flank
- R10.A0 — Flank pain, unspecified side
- R10.A2 — Flank pain, left side
Indexed Clinical Terms (1)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Pain (s), flank, right