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ICD-10/R10.A1

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

Flank pain, right side is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (R10.A1).

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

View all codes in the R10 family

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