R52
Pain, unspecified
Billable
Coding Guidelines
Inclusion Terms
- Acute pain NOS
- Generalized pain NOS
- Pain NOS
Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)
These codes should never be used together with R52
- acute and chronic pain, not elsewhere classified (G89.-)
- localized pain, unspecified type - code to pain by site, such as:
- abdomen pain (R10.-)
- M54.9 - back pain (M54.9)
- N64.4 - breast pain (N64.4)
- R07.1-R079 - chest pain (R07.1-R07.9)
- ear pain (H92.0-)
- H57.1 - eye pain (H57.1)
- R51.9 - 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.-)
- R07.0 - throat pain (R07.0)
- K14.6 - tongue pain (K14.6)
- K08.8 - tooth pain (K08.8)
- N23 - renal colic (N23)
- F45.41 - pain disorders exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)
