R09.89 Other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Abnormal chest percussion
• Bruit (arterial)
• Chest tympany
• Choking sensation
• Friction sounds in chest
• Rales
• Weak pulse

Excludes2 (not included here)

• foreign body in throat (T17.2-)
• wheezing (R06.2)

Applies from R09 Other symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory system

Excludes1 (never code together)

• acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
• respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
• respiratory distress syndrome of newborn (P22.0)
• respiratory failure (J96.-)
• respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 314-316 in MDC 05.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 785.9 Other symptoms involving cardiovascular system (approximate)
• 786.7 Abnormal chest sounds (approximate)

Diagnosis Index entries for R09.89

• Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities › chest sounds (friction) (rales)
• Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities › percussion, chest (tympany)
• Bruit (arterial)
• Choking sensation
• Congestion, congestive › chest
• Congestion, congestive › lung
• Foreign body › feeling of, in throat
• Friction › sounds, chest
• Labile › blood pressure
• Nodule (s), nodular › retrocardiac
• Pulse › weak
• Rales
• Runny nose
• Scratchy throat
• Symptoms NEC › involving › cardiovascular system NEC
• Symptoms NEC › involving › chest NEC
• Symptoms NEC › involving › circulatory system NEC
• Symptoms NEC › involving › respiratory system NEC
• Tympany › chest

Nearby codes

• R09.2 Respiratory arrest
• R09.3 Abnormal sputum
• R09.8 Other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
• R09.81 Nasal congestion
• R09.82 Postnasal drip
• R09.89 Other specified symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (this code)
• R09.A Foreign body sensation of the circulatory and respiratory system
• R09.A0 Foreign body sensation, unspecified
• R09.A1 Foreign body sensation, nose
• R09.A2 Foreign body sensation, throat
• R09.A9 Foreign body sensation, other site