R01.2

R01.2: Other cardiac sounds

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R01.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other cardiac sounds. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Cardiac dullness, increased or decreased
Precordial friction

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R01.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R01: Cardiac murmurs and other cardiac sounds

cardiac murmurs and sounds originating in the perinatal period (P29.8)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R01.2 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies: 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
A57306Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Dullness, cardiac(decreased) (increased)
Fremitus, friction, cardiac
Friction›fremitus, cardiac
Friction›precordial
Split, splitting›heart sounds
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›heart›sounds NEC
Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›heart›sounds

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.