DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

R05 Cough

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R05 is not billable. The category heads 6 billable codes in FY2027: the 6 codes directly below it.

ICD-10 code by name

What is the ICD-10 code for cough, unspecified?
Cough ICD-10 code: R05.9 Cough, unspecified. Search ICD-10 for cough

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R00-R09 Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
  3. R05 Cough
Billable codes
6
Subdivisions
6
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
14

Codes in R05

  1. R05.1
    Acute cough
    Billable
  2. R05.2
    Subacute cough
    Billable
  3. R05.3
    Chronic cough
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 3

    Inclusion terms

    • Persistent cough
    • Refractory cough
    • Unexplained cough
  4. R05.4
    Cough syncope
    Billable
    Code first 1

    Code first

    • syncope and collapse (R55) R55
  5. R05.8
    Other specified cough
    Billable
  6. R05.9
    Cough, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At R05

Excludes1

  • paroxysmal cough due to Bordetella pertussis (A37.0-) A37.0
  • smoker's cough (J41.0) J41.0

Excludes2

  • cough with hemorrhage (R04.2) R04.2

Notes that also apply

Chapter 18 instructions (Notes 9, Excludes2 4): printed on the chapter 18 page.

Index entries

  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous) → R05.9
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)acute → R05.1
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)subacute → R05.2
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)chronic → R05.3
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)persistent → R05.3
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)refractory → R05.3
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)unexplained → R05.3
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)syncope → R05.4
  • Syncope (near) (pre-)laryngeal → R05.4
  • Vertigolaryngeal → R05.4
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)bronchial → R05.8
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)laryngeal, spasmodic → R05.8
  • Cough (affected) (epidemic) (nervous)specified NEC → R05.8
  • Syncope (near) (pre-)tussive → R05.8

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