R29
R29: Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R29 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with R29
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead R29
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- R29.0Tetany
- R29.1Meningismus
- R29.2Abnormal reflex
- R29.3Abnormal posture
- R29.4Clicking hip
- R29.5Transient paralysis
- R29.6Repeated falls
- R29.7National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score
- R29.8Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
- R29.9Unspecified symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems