Valid for Submission
R49.0 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of dysphonia. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code R49.0 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like ataxic dysphonia, brainstem myoclonus, choreic dysphonia, chronic hoarseness, difficulty speaking, dysphonia of gilles de la tourette's syndrome, etc
According to ICD-10-CM guidelines this code should not to be used as a principal diagnosis code when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code R49.0:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese 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.
- Hoarseness
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code R49.0 are found in the index:
- - Dysphonia - R49.0
- - Hoarseness - R49.0
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Ataxic dysphonia
- Brainstem myoclonus
- Choreic dysphonia
- Chronic hoarseness
- Difficulty speaking
- Dysphonia of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome
- Dysphonia of organic tremor
- Dysphonia of palatopharyngolaryngeal myoclonus
- Dystonic dysphonia
- Flaccid dysphonia
- Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome
- Hoarse
- Hyperfunctional dysphonia
- Hyperkinetic dysphonia
- Hypokinetic parkinsonian dysphonia
- Low-pitch hoarse group
- O/E - dysphonia
- Strained hoarse voice arrest-intermittent arrhythmic group
- Strained hoarse voice arrest-intermittent rhythmic group
- Strained hoarse voice-continuous group
- Ventricular dysphonia
- Voice cluster
- Voice cluster
- Voice cluster
- Voice cluster
Clinical Information
- DYSPHONIA-. difficulty and/or pain in phonation or speaking.
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code R49.0 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.
- 154 - OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC
- 155 - OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITH CC
- 156 - OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC
Convert R49.0 to ICD-9
- 784.42 - Dysphonia
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020