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Category · FY2027

R29 Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems

  • Header · not billable

R29 is not billable. The category heads 57 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 10 subdivisions.

Index → code

  • Repeated falls NEC → R29.6
  • Falling, falls (repeated) → R29.6
  • Tendencyto fall → R29.6

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R25-R29 Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
  3. R29 Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
Billable codes
57
Subdivisions
10
CC / MCC codes
3 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
52

Codes in R29

  1. R29.0
    Tetany
    BillableCC
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Carpopedal spasm

    Excludes1

    • hysterical tetany (F44.5) F44.5
    • neonatal tetany (P71.3) P71.3
    • parathyroid tetany (E20.9) E20.9
    • post-thyroidectomy tetany (E89.2) E89.2
  2. R29.1
    Meningismus
    BillableCC
  3. R29.2
    Abnormal reflex
    Billable
    Excludes2 3

    Excludes2

    • abnormal pupillary reflex (H57.0) H57.0
    • hyperactive gag reflex (J39.2) J39.2
    • vasovagal reaction or syncope (R55) R55
  4. R29.3
    Abnormal posture
    Billable
  5. R29.4
    Clicking hip
    Billable
    Excludes1 1

    Excludes1

    • congenital deformities of hip (Q65.-) Q65
  6. R29.5
    Transient paralysis
    BillableCC
    Excludes1 1, Code first 1

    Excludes1

    • transient ischemic attack (G45.9) G45.9

    Code first

  7. R29.6
    Repeated falls 1 billable code
    Billable
  8. R29.7
    National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score
    Header
    Code first 1

    Code first

    • the type of cerebral infarction (I60.-, I61.-, I62.-, I63.-) I60 I61 I62 I63
  9. R29.70
    NIHSS score 0-9
    Header
  10. R29.700
    NIHSS score 0
    Billable
  11. R29.701
    NIHSS score 1
    Billable
  12. R29.702
    NIHSS score 2
    Billable
  13. R29.703
    NIHSS score 3
    Billable
  14. R29.704
    NIHSS score 4
    Billable
  15. R29.705
    NIHSS score 5
    Billable
  16. R29.706
    NIHSS score 6
    Billable
  17. R29.707
    NIHSS score 7
    Billable
  18. R29.708
    NIHSS score 8
    Billable
  19. R29.709
    NIHSS score 9
    Billable
  20. R29.71
    NIHSS score 10-19
    Header
  21. R29.710
    NIHSS score 10
    Billable
  22. R29.711
    NIHSS score 11
    Billable
  23. R29.712
    NIHSS score 12
    Billable
  24. R29.713
    NIHSS score 13
    Billable
  25. R29.714
    NIHSS score 14
    Billable
  26. R29.715
    NIHSS score 15
    Billable
  27. R29.716
    NIHSS score 16
    Billable
  28. R29.717
    NIHSS score 17
    Billable
  29. R29.718
    NIHSS score 18
    Billable
  30. R29.719
    NIHSS score 19
    Billable
  31. R29.72
    NIHSS score 20-29
    Header
  32. R29.720
    NIHSS score 20
    Billable
  33. R29.721
    NIHSS score 21
    Billable
  34. R29.722
    NIHSS score 22
    Billable
  35. R29.723
    NIHSS score 23
    Billable
  36. R29.724
    NIHSS score 24
    Billable
  37. R29.725
    NIHSS score 25
    Billable
  38. R29.726
    NIHSS score 26
    Billable
  39. R29.727
    NIHSS score 27
    Billable
  40. R29.728
    NIHSS score 28
    Billable
  41. R29.729
    NIHSS score 29
    Billable
  42. R29.73
    NIHSS score 30-39
    Header
  43. R29.730
    NIHSS score 30
    Billable
  44. R29.731
    NIHSS score 31
    Billable
  45. R29.732
    NIHSS score 32
    Billable
  46. R29.733
    NIHSS score 33
    Billable
  47. R29.734
    NIHSS score 34
    Billable
  48. R29.735
    NIHSS score 35
    Billable
  49. R29.736
    NIHSS score 36
    Billable
  50. R29.737
    NIHSS score 37
    Billable
  51. R29.738
    NIHSS score 38
    Billable
  52. R29.739
    NIHSS score 39
    Billable
  53. R29.74
    NIHSS score 40-42
    Header
  54. R29.740
    NIHSS score 40
    Billable
  55. R29.741
    NIHSS score 41
    Billable
  56. R29.742
    NIHSS score 42
    Billable
  57. R29.8
    Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
    Header
  58. R29.81
    Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous system
    Header
  59. R29.810
    Facial weakness
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Facial droop

    Excludes1

    • Bell's palsy (G51.0) G51.0
    • facial weakness following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -92) I69
  60. R29.818
    Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous system
    Billable
  61. R29.89
    Other symptoms and signs involving the musculoskeletal system
    Header
    Excludes2 1

    Excludes2

    • pain in limb (M79.6-) M79.6
  62. R29.890
    Loss of height
    Billable
    Excludes1 1

    Excludes1

    • osteoporosis (M80-M81) M80 M81
  63. R29.891
    Ocular torticollis
    Billable
    Excludes1 5

    Excludes1

    • congenital (sternomastoid) torticollis Q68.0 Q68.0
    • psychogenic torticollis (F45.8) F45.8
    • spasmodic torticollis (G24.3) G24.3
    • torticollis due to birth injury (P15.8) P15.8
    • torticollis NOS M43.6 M43.6
  64. R29.898
    Other symptoms and signs involving the musculoskeletal system
    Billable
  65. R29.9
    Unspecified symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
    Header
  66. R29.90
    Unspecified symptoms and signs involving the nervous system
    Billable
  67. R29.91
    Unspecified symptoms and signs involving the musculoskeletal system
    Billable

CC/MCC: as a secondary diagnosis, unless the principal diagnosis is on the code’s PDX exclusion list (MS-DRG v44 Appendix C; list on the code card).

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

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

Index entries

  • Pseudotetany → R29.0
  • Tetany (due to) → R29.0
  • Dupré's disease (meningism) → R29.1
  • Meningismus (infectional) (pneumococcal) → R29.1
  • Areflexia → R29.2
  • Hyper-reflexia → R29.2
  • Hyporeflexia → R29.2
  • Reflex → R29.2
  • Malposture → R29.3
  • Clicking hip (newborn) → R29.4
  • NIHSS (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale) score → R29.7-
  • Score, NIHSS (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale) → R29.7-
  • Akinesia → R29.898
  • Growing pains, children → R29.898
  • Diathesisspasmophilic → R29.0
  • Syndromemagnesium-deficiency → R29.0
  • Tetany (due to)convulsions → R29.0
  • Tetany (due to)hyperkinetic → R29.0
  • Tetany (due to)pseudotetany → R29.0
  • Disease, diseasedDupré's (meningism) → R29.1
  • Meningismus (infectional) (pneumococcal)due to serum or vaccine → R29.1
  • Rigid, rigiditynuchal → R29.1
  • SyndromeDupré's (meningism) → R29.1
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesknee jerk → R29.2
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesplantar reflex → R29.2
  • Disorder (of)reflex → R29.2
  • Disturbance(s)motor → R29.2
  • Disturbance(s)reflex → R29.2
  • Poorsucking reflex (newborn) → R29.2
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalitiesposture → R29.3
  • Imbalanceposture → R29.3
  • Imperfectposture → R29.3
  • Relaxationposture → R29.3
  • Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete)transient → R29.5
  • Droopfacial → R29.810
  • Weak, weakening, weakness (generalized)facial → R29.810
  • Deficitneurologic NEC → R29.818
  • Depression (acute) (mental)cerebral → R29.818
  • Disorder (of)neurological NEC → R29.818
  • Hypofunctioncerebral → R29.818

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