Basic information for Chest pain ICD 10 CM coding

The billable Chest pain ICD 10 code for unspecified is R07.9, their are other specified codes as well which is shared below. Most of the chest exam like ultrasound, X-ray, CT or MRI etc has chest pain has symptom as chief complaint. Most of the times only pain will be reason for visit in some reports, in such cases follow the below tip.

“When the only documentation specified by the physician is pain, assign the appropriate code for pain of the site that is being examined. If there are findings on the x-ray, code the findings. It is appropriate to code what is known at the time of code assignment.”

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Description of Chest pain ICD 10 CM code

R07.1 Chest pain on breathing
Painful respiration
R07.2 Precordial pain
R07.8 Other chest pain
R07.81 Pleurodynia
Pleurodynia NOS
Excludes1: epidemic pleurodynia (B33.0)
R07.82 Intercostal pain
R07.89 Other chest pain
Anterior chest-wall pain NOS
R07.9 Chest pain, unspecified

Related Synonyms Include:

• Chest pain
• Chest pain on exertion
• Chest pain, localized
• Exertional chest pain
• Localized chest pain

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Basic ICD-10 INFORMATION

World Health Organization (WHO) authorized the publication of the International Classification of DiseasesExternal 10th Revision (ICD-10), which was implemented for mortality coding and classification from death certificates in the U.S. in 1999. The U.S. developed a Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for medical diagnoses based on WHO’s ICD-10.  This medical classification list is generated by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is used to help healthcare providers identify and code health conditions.

ICD-10 is required for use by physicians and healthcare providers under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and will replace all ICD-9 code sets. There are nearly 5 times as many diagnosis codes in ICD-10-CM than in ICD-9-CM.ICD-10 has alphanumeric categories instead of numeric ones.