Diagnosis Code

R55 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R55

Short Description: Syncope and collapse

Long Description: Syncope and collapse

The code R55 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
      • Syncope and collapse (R55)
        • R55 Syncope and collapse

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Anoxic seizure
  • Brief loss of consciousness
  • Cardiac syncope
  • Collapse
  • Collapse
  • Collapse due to asphyxia
  • Convulsive syncope
  • Defecation syncope
  • Deglutition syncope
  • Dissociative neurological symptom disorder co-occurrent with alteration of consciousness
  • Drop attack
  • Effort syncope
  • Elderly vasovagal syndrome
  • Hypotensive syncope
  • Hypotensive syncope
  • Incomplete loss of consciousness without amnesia
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Malignant vasovagal syndrome
  • Micturition syncope
  • Moderate loss of consciousness
  • Near syncope
  • Prolonged loss of consciousness
  • Robin sequence
  • Situational syncope
  • Situational syncope
  • Syncope
  • Syncope and collapse
  • Syncope due to autonomic failure
  • Syncope due to centrifugal force in flying
  • Syncope due to orthostatic hypotension
  • Syncope symptom
  • Tussive syncope
  • Vasovagal symptom
  • Vasovagal syncope
  • Vasovagal syncope due to immersion
  • Ventricular extrasystoles with syncope, perodactyly and Robin sequence syndrome
  • Witnessed syncope

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R55 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Blackout
    • Fainting
    • Vasovagal attack
  • Type 1 Excludes Notes:
    • cardiogenic shock (@R57.0*)
    • carotid sinus syncope (@G90.01*)
    • heat syncope (@T67.1*)
    • neurocirculatory asthenia (@F45.8*)
    • neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (@G90.3*)
    • orthostatic hypotension (@I95.1*)
    • postprocedural shock (@T81.1*-)
    • psychogenic syncope (@F48.8*)
    • shock NOS (@R57.9*)
    • shock complicating or following abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (@O00*-@O07*, @O08.3*)
    • shock complicating or following labor and delivery (@O75.1*)
    • Stokes-Adams attack (@I45.9*)
    • unconsciousness NOS (@R40.2*-)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R55 Right Arrow 780.2 Syncope and collapse

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.

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