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6. R50.2

R50.2 - Drug induced fever

• Applicable to Drug induced fever
• The 2025 edition of ICD10-CM R50.2 became effective on October 1, 2024.
• This is the American ICD10-CM version of R50.2 - other international versions of ICD10 R50.2 may differ.
• R50.2 is a Billable / Specific ICD10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Code Additional Code:

• code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

Type 1 Excludes

• postvaccination (postimmunization) fever (R50.83)

The following codes above R50.2 contain annotation back-references that may be applicable to R50.2:

• Chapter: R00-R99 - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
• Section: R50-R69 - General symptoms and signs
• Category: R50 - Fever of other and unknown origin

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