Diagnosis Code: R51.9

Short Description: Headache, unspecified

Long Description: Headache, unspecified

The code R51.9 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)
    • Headache (R51)
      • R51.9 Headache, unspecified

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Aching headache
• Acute headache
• Acute pain in face
• Aural headache
• Bilateral headache
• Chronic daily headache
• Chronic orofacial pain
• Chronic pain in face
• Chronic pain in face
• Chronic pain in face
• Chronic primary orofacial pain
• Chronic secondary facial pain
• Craniofacial pain
• Daily headache
• Delayed headache caused by alcohol
• Dental headache
• Effects of high altitude
• Facial tenderness
• Frequent headache
• Frontal headache
• Frontal sinus pain
• Generalized headache
• Headache
• Headache caused by carbon monoxide
• Headache character - finding
• Headache character - finding
• Headache character - finding
• Headache disorder
• Headache due to acute angle closure glaucoma
• Headache due to arterial hypertension
• Headache due to cold exposure
• Headache due to external compression of head
• Headache due to high altitude
• Headache due to intracranial disease
• Headache due to intracranial neoplasm
• Headache due to reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome
• Headache following myelography
• Heavy head
• Hindbrain hernia headache
• Intermittent headache
• Low pressure headache
• Low pressure headache
• Low pressure headache
• Maxillary sinus pain
• Morning headache
• Muscular headache
• Nasal headache
• Obstetric spinal and epidural anesthesia-induced headache
• Occipital headache
• Pain due to neoplastic disease
• Pain in cheek
• Pain in chin
• Pain in face
• Pain of head and neck region
• Pain radiating to head
• Parietal headache
• Post dural puncture headache
• Post dural puncture headache
• Post-ictal state
• Postpartum headache
• Postseizure headache
• Referred pain
• Referred pain in face
• Scalp tenderness
• Shooting headache
• Shooting pain
• Sinus headache
• Temporal headache
• Tenderness of head and neck region
• Tenderness of neck
• Tenderness of respiratory structure
• Tenderness of respiratory structure
• Tenderness over frontal sinus
• Tenderness over maxillary sinus
• Throbbing headache
• Throbbing pain
• Unilateral headache
• Unilateral left sided headache
• Unilateral right sided headache
• Viral headache

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R51.9 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)

• Headaches With Mcc (102)
• Headaches Without Mcc (103)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R51.9 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Inclusion Terms:
  • Facial pain NOS

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

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