2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R29.6: Repeated falls (2024)

Applicable To

• Falling
• Tendency to fall

Type 2 Excludes

Type 2 Excludes Help

A type 2 excludes note represents "not included here". A type 2 excludes note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition it is excluded from but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When a type 2 excludes note appears under a code it is acceptable to use both the code (R29.6) and the excluded code together.

• at risk for falling (

  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z91.81

  History of falling

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Billable/Specific Code POA Exempt

  Applicable To

  • At risk for falling
  Z91.81)
• history of falling (

  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z91.81

  History of falling

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Billable/Specific Code POA Exempt

  Applicable To

  • At risk for falling
  Z91.81)

The following code(s) above R29.6 contain annotation back-references

Annotation Back-References

that may be applicable to R29.6:

• R00-R99

  2024 ICD-10-CM Range R00-R99

  Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

  Note

  • This chapter includes symptoms, signs, abnormal results of clinical or other investigative procedures, and ill-defined conditions regarding which no diagnosis classifiable elsewhere is recorded.
  • Signs and symptoms that point rather definitely to a given diagnosis have been assigned to a category in other chapters of the classification. In general, categories in this chapter include the less well-defined conditions and symptoms that, without the necessary study of the case to establish a final diagnosis, point perhaps equally to two or more diseases or to two or more systems of the body. Practically all categories in the chapter could be designated 'not otherwise specified', 'unknown etiology' or 'transient'. The Alphabetical Index should be consulted to determine which symptoms and signs are to be allocated here and which to other chapters. The residual subcategories, numbered .8, are generally provided for other relevant symptoms that cannot be allocated elsewhere in the classification.
  • The conditions and signs or symptoms included in categories R00-R94 consist of:
  • (a) cases for which no more specific diagnosis can be made even after all the facts bearing on the case have been investigated;
  • (b) signs or symptoms existing at the time of initial encounter that proved to be transient and whose causes could not be determined;
  • (c) provisional diagnosis in a patient who failed to return for further investigation or care;
  • (d) cases referred elsewhere for investigation or treatment before the diagnosis was made;
  • (e) cases in which a more precise diagnosis was not available for any other reason;
  • (f) certain symptoms, for which supplementary information is provided, that represent important problems in medical care in their own right.

  Type 2 Excludes

  • abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother (O28.-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • signs and symptoms classified in the body system chapters
  • signs and symptoms of breast (N63, N64.5)

  Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to R29.6:

R27.0 Ataxia, unspecified

R27.8 Other lack of coordination

R27.9 Unspecified lack of coordination

R29 Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems

R29.2 Abnormal reflex

R29.3 Abnormal posture

R29.5 Transient paralysis

R29.6 Repeated falls

R29.7 National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score