R00.0
R00.0: Tachycardia, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
R00.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for tachycardia, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check R00.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Rapid heart beat
- Sinoauricular tachycardia NOS
- Sinus [sinusal] tachycardia NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R00.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above R00.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with R00.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- I47Paroxysmal tachycardia
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
R00.0 is named in 19 Medicare coverage policies: 19 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A54954Billing and Coding: Autonomic Function Tests
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56771Billing and Coding: Special Electroencephalography
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Fast pulse
- Tachycardia
- Heart beat›rapid
- Pulse›fast
- Pulse›rapid
- Rapid›heart(beat)
- Sinus›tachycardia
- Tachycardia›sinoauricular NOS
- Tachycardia›sinus [sinusal] NOS
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.