Dizziness ICD-10-CM Codes | 2025

What ICD-10 codes are used for dizziness?

If your patient is experiencing dizziness and no diagnosis matches, you may use the ICD-10 code R42: Dizziness and giddiness. It is applicable to light-headedness and vertigo but is not otherwise specified. Vertigo can be linked to problems in the inner ear, the vestibular nerve, the brainstem, or the cerebral cortex.

However, if your patient is experiencing dizziness as a symptom, here are some ICD-10 codes used for dizziness in addition to other symptoms:

• H81.10: Benign paroxysmal vertigo, unspecified ear
• H81.11: Benign paroxysmal vertigo, right ear
• H81.12: Benign paroxysmal vertigo, left ear
• H81.13: Benign paroxysmal vertigo, bilateral
• M53.0: Cervicocranial syndrome

Note that R42 and the ICD codes above cannot be used simultaneously. You need to be able to determine if the patient is just feeling dizzy or if they are feeling so and experiencing problems like spinning sensations as a result of specific problems or disorders.

Which dizziness ICD codes are billable?

Here's a list of the most common ICD codes for dizziness and their billability:

• R42: Yes, it is billable.

• H81.10: Yes, it is billable even though the source is unspecified.
• H81.11: Yes, it is billable since the source, the right ear, is specified.
• H81.12: Yes, it is billable since the source, the left ear, is specified.
• H81.13: Yes, it is billable since the source, both ears, is specified. 
• M53.0: Yes, it is billable because it's a specific diagnosis. 

Clinical information

• Dizziness is when one feels light-headed, off balance, or feels like the world is spinning. 
• Organs that are involved are usually one's eyes and ears. 
• Though dizziness is a symptom of numerous disorders, it also has symptoms: a loss of balance, a feeling like you are floating, or the external world is revolving. Nausea, vomiting, and fainting are additional symptoms that one may exhibit.
• Some causes of dizziness are disequilibrium, dehydration, migraine, alcohol, certain medications, sudden drop in blood pressure, infections, vertiginous syndromes, etc. 
• Professionals will examine the patient's vestibular function, inner ear, and more to determine the cause of the dizziness.
• Treatments may vary depending on the causes; however, mild cases require only home remedies and some medication.

Synonyms include

• Dizziness
• Light headedness
• As if the outside world were revolving around the patient (objective vertigo)
• As if person is revolving in space (subjective vertigo)
• Vertigo (spinning sensation)
• Vertigo (spinning sensation), chronic
• Vertigo as late effect of embolic cerebrovascular accident
• Vertigo as late effect of hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident
• Vertigo as late effect of ischemic cerebrovascular accident
• Vertigo as sequela of cerebrovascular disease
• Vertigo from stroke
• Vertigo, late effect of cerebrovascular disease

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