R40.244
R40.244: Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
R40.244 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other coma, without documented glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported. 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
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R40.244
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with R40.244
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R41.82Altered mental status, unspecified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Coma›specified NEC, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial Glasgow coma scale score reported
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead R40.244
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- R40.2440Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported, unspecified time
- R40.2441Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported, in the field [EMT or ambulance]
- R40.2442Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported, at arrival to emergency department
- R40.2443Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported, at hospital admission
- R40.2444Other coma, without documented Glasgow coma scale score, or with partial score reported, 24 hours or more after hospital admission