ICD-10-CM code "R29.7": National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeR29.7
DescriptionNational Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score
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. Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R29)
  4. National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7)
Billable statusNon 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. Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R29)
  4. National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7)

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. Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R29)
  4. National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7)

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