Diagnosis Code: R43.8

Short Description: Other disturbances of smell and taste

Long Description: Other disturbances of smell and taste

The code R43.8 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

• Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
  • Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)
    • Disturbances of smell and taste (R43)
      • R43.8 Other disturbances of smell and taste

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Aftertaste
• Anterior tongue taste disorder
• Bad taste in mouth
• Franklinic taste
• Garlic taste
• Hemiageusia
• Hypogeusia
• Loss of taste
• Loss of taste
• Loss of taste
• Loss of taste anterior two thirds of tongue
• Loss of taste posterior one third of tongue
• Metallic taste
• Neurologic unpleasant taste
• Phantom taste
• Primary bitter taste disorder
• Primary salt taste disorder
• Primary sweet taste disorder
• Primary taste disorder
• Primary taste disorder
• Primary taste disorder
• Pseudogeusesthesia
• Secondary acid taste disorder
• Secondary bitter taste disorder
• Secondary sweet taste disorder
• Secondary taste disorder
• Sensitive to smells
• Sensitivity to individual odor
• Taste of food lingers
• Unpleasant taste in mouth

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R43.8 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Inclusion Terms:
  • Mixed disturbance of smell and taste

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