R40.225⚠ Requires 7th Character

Coma scale, best verbal response, oriented

⚠ 7th Character Required

The following appropriate 7th character is to be added to subcategory R40.22-:

This code is not valid for billing without a 7th character. Append one of the following to R40.225:

0unspecified timeR40.22501in the field [EMT or ambulance]R40.22512at arrival to emergency departmentR40.22523at hospital admissionR40.2253424 hours or more after hospital admissionR40.2254

Inclusion Terms

  • •Coma scale verbal score of 5
  • •Cooing or babbling or crying appropriately (< 2 years of age)
  • •Uses appropriate words (2- 5 years of age)

Code Hierarchy

┌18Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)├R40-R46Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)├R40Somnolence, stupor and coma
└R40.225Coma scale, best verbal response, oriented

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