R00.2 — Palpitations
R00.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for palpitations. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Awareness of heart beat
Risk adjustment
R00.2 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
R00.2 is named in 24 Medicare coverage policies — 24 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56602Billing and Coding: Cardiac Rhythm Device Evaluation
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
How R00.2 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R00.2.
- Awareness of heart beat
- Palpitations(heart)
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›pulsations in neck
- Heart beat›awareness
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R00. If R00.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R00.2
- Is R00.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R00.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R00.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09).