R52Billable
Pain, unspecified
Chapter 18: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
Inclusion Terms
3 items
Inclusion Terms
- •Acute pain NOS
- •Generalized pain NOS
- •Pain NOS
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- •acute and chronic pain, not elsewhere classified (G89.-)
- •localized pain, unspecified type - code to pain by site, such as:
- •abdomen pain (R10.-)
- •back pain (M54.9)
- •breast pain (N64.4)
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- •ear pain (H92.0-)
- •eye pain (H57.1)
- •headache (R51.9)
- •joint pain (M25.5-)
- •limb pain (M79.6-)
- •lumbar region pain (M54.5-)
- •pelvic and perineal pain (R10.2)
- •shoulder pain (M25.51-)
- •spine pain (M54.-)
- •throat pain (R07.0)
- •tongue pain (K14.6)
- •tooth pain (K08.8)
- •renal colic (N23)
- •pain disorders exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)
Billable Code
R52 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for general pain
general pain
View TemplatesPain, not elsewhere classified
View documentation for generalized pain
generalized pain
View TemplatesGeneralized Pain Syndrome
View documentation for pain unspecified
pain unspecified
View TemplatesPain, unspecified
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
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Notes
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Notes
From R00-R99:
- •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.