Is R29.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R29.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R29.4 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 nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29).

What cannot be coded together with R29.4?

R29.4 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

R29.4

R29.4 — Clicking hip

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R29.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for clicking hip. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

congenital deformities of hip (Q65.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with R29.4

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R29.4. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R29.4 alone.

Q65Congenital deformities of hip

Risk adjustment

R29.4 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

R29.4 is named in 7 Medicare coverage policies — 7 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
A53058Billing and Coding: Home Health Physical Therapy
A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
A53065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Physical Therapy

How R29.4 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 R29.4.

Clicking hip(newborn)

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R29. If R29.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R29.4

Is R29.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R29.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R29.4 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 nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29).
What cannot be coded together with R29.4?: R29.4 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.