R52 in ICD-10 for pain, unspecified

Billable/ Specific Code:

R52 Diagnosis code is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

ICD-10 code R52 is utilized for ‘Pain, unspecified’ diagnosis. This alphanumeric identifier, also referred to as ‘R52 diagnosis code,’ is crucial for accurately coding and documenting instances of unspecified pain in medical records. Healthcare providers use ‘ICD 10 R52‘ to denote such cases, ensuring proper communication and reimbursement for services rendered. Thus, ‘Diagnosis code R52′ or ‘ICD 10 code R52’ serves as a standardized tool in healthcare coding practices.

Applicable To:

• Acute pain NOS
• Generalized pain NOS
• Pain NOS

Approximate Synonyms:

• Acute pain
• Body aches
• Buttock muscular pain
• Chronic back pain for greater than 3 months
• Chronic back pain greater than 3 months duration
• Chronic coccygeal pain for greater than 3 months
• Chronic low back pain
• Chronic low back pain for greater than 3 months
• Chronic low back pain greater than 3 months duration
• Chronic malignant pain
• Chronic neck pain
• Chronic nonmalignant pain
• Chronic pain
• Chronic pain due to malignancy
• Generalized aches and pains
• Generalized pain
• Neck pain, chronic
• Pain
• Pain crisis
• Pain in buttock
• Pain of coccyx greater than 3 months, chronic

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by the sensation of marked discomfort, distress or agony.
• An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by nerve endings of nociceptive neurons.
• Causing physical or psychological misery, pain or distress.
• Intensely discomforting, distressful, or agonizing sensation associated with trauma or disease, with well-defined location, character, and timing.
• Pain is a feeling triggered in the nervous system. Pain may be sharp or dull. It may come and go, or it may be constant. You may feel pain in one area of your body, such as your back, abdomen or chest or you may feel pain all over, such as when your muscles ache from the flu. Pain can be helpful in diagnosing a problem. Without pain, you might seriously hurt yourself without knowing it, or you might not realize you have a medical problem that needs treatment. Once you take care of the problem, pain usually goes away. However, sometimes pain goes on for weeks, months or even years. This is called chronic pain. Sometimes chronic pain is due to an ongoing cause, such as cancer or arthritis. Sometimes the cause is unknown. Fortunately, there are many ways to treat pain. Treatment varies depending on the cause of pain. pain relievers, acupuncture and sometimes surgery are helpful.
• Pain that comes on quickly, can be severe, but lasts a relatively short time.
• Physical suffering or distress, to hurt
• Sensation of unpleasant feeling indicating potential or actual damage to some body structure felt all over, or throughout the body.
• Severe pain of limited duration
• The sensation of discomfort, distress, or agony, resulting from the stimulation of specialized nerve endings.
• Unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli and generally received by specialized nerve endings.
• Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (international association for the study of pain); sudden or slow onset of any intensity from mild to severe with an anticipated or predictable end and a duration of less than 6 months
• Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

Related Specialties:

• Pain management

ICD-10: A Brief Synopsis

For disease reporting, the US utilizes its own national variant of ICD-10 called the ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). A procedural classification called ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) has also been developed for capturing inpatient procedures. The ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS were developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). There are over 70,000 ICD-10-PCS procedure codes and over 69,000 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, compared to about 3,800 procedure codes and roughly 14,000 diagnosis codes found in the previous ICD-9-CM.

The expansion of healthcare delivery systems and changes in global health trends prompted a need for codes with improved clinical accuracy and specificity. The alphanumeric coding in ICD-10 is an improvement from ICD-9 which had a limited number of codes and a restrictive structure. Early concerns in the implementation of ICD-10 included the cost and the availability of resources for training healthcare workers and professional coders.

There was much controversy when the transition from the ICD-9-CM to the ICD-10-CM was first announced in the US. Many providers were concerned about the vast number of codes being added, the complexity of the new coding system, and the costs associated with the transition. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) weighed these concerns against the benefits of having more accurate data collection, clearer documentation of diagnoses and procedures, and more accurate claims processing. CMS decided the financial and public health cost associated with continuing to use the ICD-9-CM was too high and mandated the switch to ICD-10-CM.