Is R44.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R44.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R44.0 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 cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46).

R44.0

R44.0 — Auditory hallucinations

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R44.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for auditory hallucinations. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R44.0 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

R44.0 is named in 13 Medicare coverage policies — 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A54799Billing and Coding: Urine Drug Testing
A55001Billing and Coding: Urine Drug Testing
A56034Billing and Coding: Nerve Blockade for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Neuropathy
A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head

How R44.0 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 R44.0.

Hallucination›auditory

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R44. If R44.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R44.0

Is R44.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R44.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R44.0 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 cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46).