ICD-10-CM code "G44.22": Chronic tension-type headache (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeG44.22
DescriptionChronic tension-type headache
Hierarchy
  1. Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
  2. Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
  3. Other headache syndromes (G44)
  4. Tension-type headache (G44.2)
  5. Chronic tension-type headache (G44.22)
Billable statusNon billable code

Excludes

  1. Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)

    Type 2certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)

    Type 2certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Type 2complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)

    Type 2congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)

    Type 2endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)

    Type 2injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

    Type 2neoplasms (C00-D49)

    Type 2symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

  2. Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
  3. Other headache syndromes (G44)

    Type 1headache NOS (R51.9)

    Type 2atypical facial pain (G50.1)

    Type 2headache due to lumbar puncture (G97.1)

    Type 2migraines (G43.-)

    Type 2trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)

  4. Tension-type headache (G44.2)
  5. Chronic tension-type headache (G44.22)

Includes

  1. Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
  2. Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
  3. Other headache syndromes (G44)
  4. Tension-type headache (G44.2)
  5. Chronic tension-type headache (G44.22)

Subcategories