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R29.810 - Facial weakness


The ICD 10 Code for Facial weakness is listed as R29.810.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: R29.810
Description: Facial weakness
  • Facial droop
  • Excludes1: Bell's palsy (G51.0)
  • facial weakness following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -92)
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
091 - Other Disorders Of Nervous System W Mcc
092 - Other Disorders Of Nervous System W Cc
093 - Other Disorders Of Nervous System W/o Cc/mcc
Chapter Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Block Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
Parent R29.81 - Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous system
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 781.94 - Facial weakness
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of R29.810:
R29.818 - Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous system