Diagnosis Code

R27.8 OTHER LACK OF COORDINATION


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R27.8

Short Description: Other lack of coordination

Long Description: Other lack of coordination

The code R27.8 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
      • Other lack of coordination (R27)
        • R27.8 Other lack of coordination

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Acute cerebellar ataxia
  • Asterixis
  • Asynergia
  • Coarse tremor
  • Control of movement - finding
  • Decreased coordination
  • Deep dysgraphia
  • Difficulty balancing
  • Difficulty balancing when bending
  • Difficulty balancing when reaching
  • Difficulty balancing when sitting
  • Difficulty standing alone
  • Difficulty standing on one leg
  • Does not balance
  • Does not balance when bending
  • Does not balance when reaching
  • Does not balance when sitting
  • Does not stand alone
  • Does not stand on one leg
  • Drops things
  • Dysdiadochokinesis
  • Dysdiadochokinesis present
  • Dysgraphia
  • Dysmetria
  • Dyspraxia
  • Dyspraxia of arm
  • Finding of body control
  • Finding of body control
  • Finding of general balance
  • Finding of general balance
  • Finding of pattern of coordination
  • Finding of pattern of coordination
  • Finding of sitting balance
  • Finding of sitting balance
  • Finding related to ability to balance when bending
  • Finding related to ability to balance when bending
  • Finding related to ability to balance when reaching
  • Finding related to ability to balance when reaching
  • Finding related to ability to balance when sitting
  • Finding related to ability to balance when sitting
  • Finding related to ability to bend to pick up object without falling
  • Finding related to ability to stand alone
  • Finding related to ability to stand alone
  • Finding related to ability to stand alone
  • Finding related to ability to stand on one leg
  • Finding related to ability to stand on one leg
  • Finding related to ability to stand on one leg
  • Fine motor disability
  • Finger-nose test abnormal
  • Finger-nose test finding
  • Fumbles with things
  • General unsteadiness
  • Incoordination
  • Incoordination
  • Loss of control of movement
  • Loss of trunk control
  • Muscular incoordination
  • Named sign of balance
  • Named sign of balance
  • Named sign of balance
  • Ocular fixation - finding
  • Ocular fixation projection - finding
  • Paragraphia
  • Past pointing
  • Phonological dysgraphia
  • Poor balance
  • Rebound dysmetria
  • Romberg sign
  • Romberg test evokes stiff fall backward
  • Romberg test positive and direction of fall affected by head turn
  • Surface dysgraphia
  • Trunk control - finding
  • Unable to bend
  • Unable to bend down
  • Unable to bend to pick up object without falling
  • Unable to stand alone
  • Unable to stand on one leg

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R27.8 Right Arrow 781.3 Lack of coordination

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R27 Other lack of coordination
R27.0 Ataxia, unspecified
R27.9 Unspecified lack of coordination


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023