R40.24
R40.24: Glasgow coma scale, total score
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R40.24 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for glasgow coma scale, total score. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The following appropriate 7th character is to be added to subcategory R40.24-:
- 0
- unspecified time
- 1
- in the field [EMT or ambulance]
- 2
- at arrival to emergency department
- 3
- at hospital admission
- 4
- 24 hours or more after hospital admission
Notes
Additional guidance from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Assign a code from subcategory R40.24, when only the total coma score is documented
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R40.24
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with R40.24
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 R40.24
4 child codes. Green means billable.