ICD-10-CM code "R29.72": NIHSS score 20-29 (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeR29.72
DescriptionNIHSS score 20-29
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)
  5. NIHSS score 20-29 (R29.72)
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)
  5. NIHSS score 20-29 (R29.72)

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)
  5. NIHSS score 20-29 (R29.72)

Subcategories