R29.7

ICD-10Non-billable category

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score

Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score

R29.7 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.

Code first

Sequence the underlying condition before this code.

the type of cerebral infarction (I63.-)

ICD-10-CM FY2026 defines 5 codes beneath R29.7. See the ICD-10-CM index for what this site publishes.

Related codes in R29

Where this code sits

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Block: Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
Parent code: R29

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Source

ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.