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R29.7

R29.7: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R29.7 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for national institutes of health stroke scale (nihss) score. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Code first

The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.

  • the type of cerebral infarction (I60.-, I61.-, I62.-, I63.-)

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 R29.7

5 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under R29

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release: see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.