ICD-10-CM code "R26.2": Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeR26.2
DescriptionDifficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified
Hierarchy
  1. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
  3. Abnormalities of gait and mobility (R26)
  4. Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified (R26.2)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

Excludes

  1. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

    Type 2abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother (O28.-)

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

    Type 2signs and symptoms classified in the body system chapters

    Type 2signs and symptoms of breast (N63, N64.5)

  2. Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
  3. Abnormalities of gait and mobility (R26)

    Type 1ataxia NOS (R27.0)

    Type 1hereditary ataxia (G11.-)

    Type 1locomotor (syphilitic) ataxia (A52.11)

    Type 1immobility syndrome (paraplegic) (M62.3)

  4. Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified (R26.2)

    Type 1falling (R29.6)

    Type 1unsteadiness on feet (R26.81)

Includes

  1. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
  3. Abnormalities of gait and mobility (R26)
  4. Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified (R26.2)