R29.6
R29.6: Repeated falls
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
R29.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for repeated falls. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check R29.6 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2: 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.
- Falling
- Tendency to fall
Other codes that can never be billed with R29.6
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R26.2Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
R29.6 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies: 12 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- 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
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Falling, falls(repeated)
- Repeated falls NEC
- Gait abnormality›falling
- Tendency›to fall
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under R29
- R29.0Tetany
- R29.1Meningismus
- R29.2Abnormal reflex
- R29.3Abnormal posture
- R29.4Clicking hip
- R29.5Transient paralysis
- 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