ICD-9 Code 729.2
Neuralgia, neuritis, and radiculitis, unspecified
Not Valid for Submission
729.2 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of neuralgia, neuritis, and radiculitis, unspecified. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
ICD-9: | 729.2 |
Short Description: | Neuralgia/neuritis NOS |
Long Description: | Neuralgia, neuritis, and radiculitis, unspecified |
Convert 729.2 to ICD-10
The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
Code Classification
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Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (710–739)
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Rheumatism, excluding the back (725-729)
- 729 Other disorders of soft tissues
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Rheumatism, excluding the back (725-729)
Information for Medical Professionals
Synonyms
- Anterior ethmoidal nerve syndrome
- Atypical neuralgia
- Diabetic radiculopathy
- Diabetic thoracic radiculopathy
- Diabetic truncal radiculopathy
- Femoral neuralgia
- Hallucinatory neuralgia
- Herpes zoster radiculitis
- Lumbosacral spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Multiple-level lumbosacral spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Multiple-level thoracic spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Neuralgia
- Neuralgia associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- Neuralgia/neuritis - multiple
- Neuritis
- Neuritis associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- Neurogenic pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Obturator neuralgia
- Perineal neuralgia
- Peripheral neuritis
- Peripheral neurogenic pain
- Peripheral neuropathic pain
- Postinfectious neuralgia
- Pudendal neuralgia
- Radicular pain
- Radiculitis
- Radiculitis associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- Reminiscent neuralgia
- Root irritation of non-organic origin
- Segmental peripheral neuralgia
- Serum neuropathy
- Stump neuralgia
- Sympathetically independent pain
- Sympathetically maintained pain
- Thoracic spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Two-level lumbosacral spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Two-level thoracic spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Unilateral shortlasting neuralgiform pain with conjunctival injection and tearing syndrome
Index to Diseases and Injuries
References found for the code 729.2 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
- Disease diseased SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Syndrome- policeman s 729.2
- Inflammation inflamed inflammatory with exudation
- Neuralgia neuralgic acute SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuritis 729.2- accessory nerve 352.4
- acoustic nerve 388.5
- ankle 355.8
- anterior crural 355.8
- anus 787.99
- arm 723.4
- auditory nerve 388.5
- axilla 353.0
- bladder 788.1
- brachial 723.4
- brain see Disorder nerve cranial
- broad ligament 625.9
- cerebral see Disorder nerve cranial
- ciliary 339.00
- cranial nerve SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Disorder nerve cranial- fifth or trigeminal SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia trigeminal 350.1
- fifth or trigeminal SEE ALSO See Also
- ear 388.71
- middle 352.1
- facial 351.8
- finger 354.9
- flank 355.8
- foot 355.8
- forearm 354.9
- Fothergill s SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia trigeminal 350.1- postherpetic 053.12
- glossopharyngeal nerve 352.1
- groin 355.8
- hand 354.9
- heel 355.8
- Horton s 339.00
- Hunt s 053.11
- hypoglossal nerve 352.5
- iliac region 355.8
- infraorbital SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia trigeminal 350.1
- inguinal 355.8
- intercostal nerve 353.8
- postherpetic 053.19
- jaw 352.1
- kidney 788.0
- knee 355.8
- loin 355.8
- mastoid 385.89
- maxilla 352.1
- median thenar 354.1
- metatarsal 355.6
- middle ear 352.1
- migrainous 339.00
- Morton s 355.6
- nerve cranial see Disorder nerve cranial
- nose 352.0
- occipital 723.8
- olfactory nerve 352.0
- ophthalmic 377.30
- postherpetic 053.19
- optic nerve 377.30
- penis 607.9
- perineum 355.8
- pleura 511.0
- postherpetic NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 053.19- geniculate ganglion 053.11
- ophthalmic 053.19
- trifacial 053.12
- trigeminal 053.12
- pubic region 355.8
- radial nerve 723.4
- rectum 787.99
- sacroiliac joint 724.3
- sciatic nerve 724.3
- scrotum 608.9
- seminal vesicle 608.9
- shoulder 354.9
- sluder s 337.09
- specified nerve NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. see Disorder nerve
- spermatic cord 608.9
- sphenopalatine ganglion 337.09
- subscapular nerve 723.4
- suprascapular nerve 723.4
- testis 608.89
- thenar median 354.1
- thigh 355.8
- tongue 352.5
- trifacial nerve SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia trigeminal 350.1
- trigeminal nerve 350.1
- postherpetic 053.12
- tympanic plexus 388.71
- ulnar nerve 723.4
- vagus nerve 352.3
- wrist 354.9
- writers 300.89
- organic 333.84
- Neuritis SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia 729.2- abducens nerve 378.54
- accessory nerve 352.4
- acoustic nerve 388.5
- syphilitic 094.86
- alcoholic 357.5
- with psychosis 291.1
- amyloid any site 277.39 357.4
- anterior crural 355.8
- arising during pregnancy 646.4
- arm 723.4
- ascending 355.2
- auditory nerve 388.5
- brachial nerve NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 723.4- due to displacement intervertebral disc 722.0
- cervical 723.4
- chest wall 353.8
- costal region 353.8
- cranial nerve SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Disorder nerve cranial- first or olfactory 352.0
- second or optic 377.30
- third or oculomotor 378.52
- fourth or trochlear 378.53
- fifth or trigeminal SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuralgia trigeminal 350.1
- sixth or abducens 378.54
- seventh or facial 351.8
- newborn 767.5
- eighth or acoustic 388.5
- ninth or glossopharyngeal 352.1
- tenth or vagus 352.3
- eleventh or accessory 352.4
- twelfth or hypoglossal 352.5
- D j rine Sottas 356.0
- diabetic 250.6 357.2
- due to secondary diabetes 249.6 357.2
- diphtheritic 032.89 357.4
- due to
- beriberi 265.0 357.4
- displacement prolapse protrusion or rupture of intervertebral disc 722.2
- cervical 722.0
- lumbar lumbosacral 722.10
- thoracic thoracolumbar 722.11
- herniation nucleus pulposus 722.2
- cervical 722.0
- lumbar lumbosacral 722.10
- thoracic thoracolumbar 722.11
- endemic 265.0 357.4
- facial nerve 351.8
- newborn 767.5
- general see Polyneuropathy
- geniculate ganglion 351.1
- due to herpes 053.11
- glossopharyngeal nerve 352.1
- gouty 274.89 357.4
- hypoglossal nerve 352.5
- ilioinguinal nerve 355.8
- in diseases classified elsewhere see Polyneuropathy in
- infectious multiple 357.0
- intercostal nerve 353.8
- interstitial hypertrophic progressive NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 356.9
- leg 355.8
- median nerve 354.1
- thenar 354.1
- multiple acute infective 356.9
- endemic 265.0 357.4
- multiplex endemica 265.0 357.4
- nerve root SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Radiculitis 729.2
- oculomotor nerve 378.52
- olfactory nerve 352.0
- optic nerve 377.30
- in myelitis 341.0
- meningococcal 036.81
- pelvic 355.8
- peripheral nerve SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Neuropathy peripheral- complicating pregnancy or puerperium 646.4
- pneumogastric nerve 352.3
- postchickenpox 052.7
- postherpetic 053.19
- progressive hypertrophic interstitial NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 356.9
- puerperal postpartum 646.4
- radial nerve 723.4
- retrobulbar 377.32
- syphilitic 094.85
- rheumatic chronic 729.2
- sacral region 355.8
- sciatic nerve 724.3
- due to displacement of intervertebral disc 722.10
- serum 999.59
- specified nerve NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. see Disorder nerve
- spinal nerve 355.9
- subscapular nerve 723.4
- suprascapular nerve 723.4
- syphilitic 095.8
- thenar median 354.1
- trochlear nerve 378.53
- ulnar nerve 723.4
- vagus nerve 352.3
- Neuropathy neuropathic SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Disorder nerve 355.9- radicular NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 729.2- brachial 723.4
- hereditary sensory 356.2
- lumbar 724.4
- lumbosacral 724.4
- radicular NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
- Pain s SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Painful 780.96- radicular spinal SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Radiculitis 729.2
- root spinal SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Radiculitis 729.2
- spinal root SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Radiculitis 729.2
- radicular spinal SEE ALSO See Also
- Policeman s disease 729.2
- Radiculitis pressure vertebrogenic 729.2
- accessory nerve 723.4
- anterior crural 724.4
- arm 723.4
- brachial 723.4
- due to displacement of intervertebral disc see Neuritis due to displacement intervertebral disc
- leg 724.4
- lumbosacral 724.4
- rheumatic 729.2
- syphilitic 094.89
- thoracic with visceral pain 724.4
- Radiculopathy SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Radiculitis 729.2 - Rheumatism rheumatic acute NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 729.0- neuritis acute chronic 729.2
- radiculitis 729.2
- Syndrome SEE ALSO See Also
A “see also” instruction following a main term in the index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the “see also” note when the original main term provides the necessary code. Disease- radicular NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
This abbreviation in the index represents “other specified” when a specific code is not available for a condition the index directs the coder to the “other specified” code in the tabular. 729.2- lower limbs 724.4
- upper limbs 723.4
- newborn 767.4
- radicular NEC NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable"
- Tarsalgia 729.2
Information for Patients
Pain
Pain is a signal in your nervous system that something may be wrong. It is an unpleasant feeling, such as a prick, tingle, sting, burn, or ache. 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, chest, pelvis, or you may feel pain all over.
Pain can be helpful in diagnosing a problem. If you never felt pain, you might seriously hurt yourself without knowing it, or you might not realize you have a medical problem that needs treatment.
There are two types of pain: acute and chronic. Acute pain usually comes on suddenly, because of a disease, injury, or inflammation. It can often be diagnosed and treated. It usually goes away, though sometimes it can turn into chronic pain. Chronic pain lasts for a long time, and can cause severe problems.
Pain is not always curable, but there are many ways to treat it. Treatment depends on the cause and type of pain. There are drug treatments, including pain relievers. There are also non-drug treatments, such as acupuncture, physical therapy, and sometimes surgery.
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ICD-9 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Index of Diseases and Injuries Definitions
- And - The word "and" should be interpreted to mean either "and" or "or" when it appears in a title.
- Code also note - A "code also" note instructs that two codes may be required to fully describe a condition, but this note does not provide sequencing direction.
- Code first - Certain conditions have both an underlying etiology and multiple body system manifestations due to the underlying etiology. For such conditions, the ICD-10-CM has a coding convention that requires the underlying condition be sequenced first followed by the manifestation. Wherever such a combination exists, there is a "use additional code" note at the etiology code, and a "code first" note at the manifestation code. These instructional notes indicate the proper sequencing order of the codes, etiology followed by manifestation.
- Type 1 Excludes Notes - A type 1 Excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
- Type 2 Excludes Notes - A type 2 Excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
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- Inclusion terms - List of terms is included under some codes. These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- NEC "Not elsewhere classifiable" - This abbreviation in the Alphabetic Index represents "other specified". When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Alphabetic Index directs the coder to the "other specified” code in the Tabular List.
- NOS "Not otherwise specified" - This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.
- See - The "see" instruction following a main term in the Alphabetic Index indicates that another term should be referenced. It is necessary to go to the main term referenced with the "see" note to locate the correct code.
- See Also - A "see also" instruction following a main term in the Alphabetic Index instructs that there is another main term that may also be referenced that may provide additional Alphabetic Index entries that may be useful. It is not necessary to follow the "see also" note when the original main term provides the necessary code.
- 7th Characters - Certain ICD-10-CM categories have applicable 7th characters. The applicable 7th character is required for all codes within the category, or as the notes in the Tabular List instruct. The 7th character must always be the 7th character in the data field. If a code that requires a 7th character is not 6 characters, a placeholder X must be used to fill in the empty characters.
- With - The word "with" should be interpreted to mean "associated with" or "due to" when it appears in a code title, the Alphabetic Index, or an instructional note in the Tabular List. The word "with" in the Alphabetic Index is sequenced immediately following the main term, not in alphabetical order.