R09.89 — Other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
R09.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Abnormal chest percussion
- Bruit (arterial)
- Chest tympany
- Choking sensation
- Friction sounds in chest
- Rales
- Weak pulse
Risk adjustment
R09.89 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
R09.89 is named in 20 Medicare coverage policies — 20 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52992Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Cerebrovascular Arterial Studies
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56697Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Vascular Studies
- A56697Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Vascular Studies
How R09.89 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 R09.89.
- Bruit(arterial)
- Choking sensation
- Rales
- Runny nose
- Scratchy throat
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›chest sounds(friction) (rales)
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›percussion, chest(tympany)
- Congestion, congestive›chest
- Congestion, congestive›lung
- Foreign body›feeling of, in throat
- Friction›sounds, chest
- Labile›blood pressure
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R09.8. If R09.89 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R09.89
- Is R09.89 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R09.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R09.89 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).