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ICD-10/R33.8

R33.8 ICD-10-CM Code: Other retention of urine

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 695 — KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS WITH MCC (MDC 11)
  • MS-DRG 696 — KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 11)
  • MS-DRG 791 — PREMATURITY WITH MAJOR PROBLEMS (MDC 15)
  • MS-DRG 793 — FULL TERM NEONATE WITH MAJOR PROBLEMS (MDC 15)

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

Other retention of urine is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (R33.8).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for R33.8 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.

  • psychogenic retention of urine (F45.8)

Code First

Underlying conditions that must be sequenced before this code.

  • Code first, if applicable, any causal condition, such as:
  • enlarged prostate (N40.1)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to R33.8 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • R33 — Retention of urine
  • R33.0 — Drug induced retention of urine
  • R33.9 — Retention of urine, unspecified

View all codes in the R33 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Retention, urine, organic
  • Retention, urine, specified NEC
  • Urine, retention or stasis, organic