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Category · FY2027

R44 Other symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions

  • Header · not billable

R44 is not billable. The category heads 6 billable codes in FY2027: the 6 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Hallucination → R44.3
  • Loss (of)sensory → R44.9
  • Hallucinationvisual → R44.1

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R40-R46 Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)
  3. R44 Other symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions
Billable codes
6
Subdivisions
6
CC / MCC codes
3 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
11

Codes in R44

  1. R44.0
    Auditory hallucinations
    BillableCC
  2. R44.1
    Visual hallucinations
    Billable
  3. R44.2
    Other hallucinations
    BillableCC
  4. R44.3
    Hallucinations, unspecified
    BillableCC
  5. R44.8
    Other symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions
    Billable
  6. R44.9
    Unspecified symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions
    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

At R44

Excludes1

  • alcoholic hallucinations (F10.151, F10.251, F10.951) F10.151 F10.251 F10.951
  • hallucinations in drug psychosis (F11-F19 with fifth to sixth characters 51) F11 F19
  • hallucinations in mood disorders with psychotic symptoms (F30.2, F31.5, F32.3, F33.3) F30.2 F31.5 F32.3 F33.3
  • hallucinations in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (F20-F29) F20 F29

Excludes2

  • disturbances of skin sensation (R20.-) R20

Notes that also apply

Block R40-R46 instructions (Excludes2 1): printed on the block page.

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

Index entries

  • Hallucination → R44.3
  • Hallucinationauditory → R44.0
  • Hallucinationvisual → R44.1
  • Vision, visualhallucinations → R44.1
  • Hallucinationgustatory → R44.2
  • Hallucinationolfactory → R44.2
  • Hallucinationspecified NEC → R44.2
  • Hallucinationtactile → R44.2
  • Loss (of)sensory → R44.9
  • Symptoms NECinvolvinggeneral perceptions and sensations → R44.9
  • Symptoms NECinvolvinggeneral perceptions and sensationsspecified NEC → R44.8

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