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ICD-10-CM Current in FY 2027

R29.72

NIHSS score 20-29

Release
FY 2027
Effective

Hierarchy

Where R29.72 sits in the official hierarchy. Each level is the code it is classified under.

  1. R29 Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
  2. R29.7 Parent National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score
  3. R29.72 This code NIHSS score 20-29

Official Coding Notes

Reproduced verbatim from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files. Notes labelled as inherited are declared on a parent code and apply here too.

Code First

the type of cerebral infarction ( I60 .-, I61 .-, I62 .-, I63 .-)

Inherited from R29.7 — National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score

More Specific Codes

10 codes under R29.72

Version History

How R29.72 appears in each release imported from the official files, newest first.

  1. FY 2027 Effective

    Current

    NIHSS score 20-29

  2. FY 2026 Effective

    Unchanged

    NIHSS score 20-29

Other codes under R29.7

Data Source

Code information on this page is derived from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files published by CDC NCHS and CMS.

Release
FY 2027
Effective
Source file
icd10cm-code-descriptions-2027.zip

Official ICD-10-CM source files (opens in a new tab)

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