
2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 729.2
Neuralgia, neuritis, and radiculitis, unspecified
- Short description: Neuralgia/neuritis NOS.
- ICD-9-CM 729.2 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 729.2 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
- You are viewing the 2013 version of ICD-9-CM 729.2.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 729.2: 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
729.2 converts approximately to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM M54.10 Radiculopathy, site unspecified
Or:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM M79.2 Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
- Nerve root disorder
- Neuralgia
- Neuralgia (nerve pain)
- Neuritis
- Neuritis (nerve inflammation)
- Neuropathic (nerve) pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Radicular pain
- Radiculitis
- Radiculitis (inflamed spinal nerve root)
- Radiculopathy
- Radiculopathy (disease of spinal nerve root)
- Thoracic spondylosis with radiculopathy
729.2 Excludes

ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to
729.2:
- Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
policeman's 729.2
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
nerve NEC 729.2
- Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute) (see also Neuritis) 729.2
brain - see Disorder nerve, cranial
cerebral - see Disorder, nerve, cranial
cranial nerve - see also Disorder, nerve, cranial
fifth or trigeminal (see also Neuralgia, trigeminal) 350.1
Fothergill's (see also Neuralgia, trigeminal) 350.1
glossopharyngeal (nerve) 352.1
hypoglossal (nerve) 352.5
infraorbital (see also Neuralgia, trigeminal) 350.1
intercostal (nerve) 353.8
malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
nerve, cranial - see Disorder, nerve, cranial
specified nerve NEC - see Disorder, nerve
sphenopalatine (ganglion) 337.09
subscapular (nerve) 723.4
suprascapular (nerve) 723.4
trifacial (nerve) (see also Neuralgia, trigeminal) 350.1
- Neuritis (see also Neuralgia) 729.2
arising during pregnancy 646.4
brachial (nerve) NEC 723.4

due to displacement, intervertebral disc 722.0
cranial nerve - see also Disorder, nerve, cranial
first or olfactory 352.0

second or optic 377.30

third or oculomotor 378.52

fourth or trochlear 378.53

fifth or trigeminal (see also Neuralgia, trigeminal) 350.1

sixth or abducens 378.54

seventh or facial 351.8

eighth or acoustic 388.5

ninth or glossopharyngeal 352.1

tenth or vagus 352.3

eleventh or accessory 352.4

twelfth or hypoglossal 352.5
due to
beriberi 265.0
[357.4
]
displacement, prolapse, protrusion, or rupture of intervertebral disc 722.2

herniation, nucleus pulposus 722.2
general - see Polyneuropathy
geniculate ganglion 351.1
glossopharyngeal (nerve) 352.1
hypoglossal (nerve) 352.5
ilioinguinal (nerve) 355.8
in diseases classified elsewhere - see Polyneuropathy, in
infectious (multiple) 357.0
intercostal (nerve) 353.8
interstitial hypertrophic progressive NEC 356.9
multiple (acute) (infective) 356.9
nerve root (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
peripheral (nerve) - see also Neuropathy, peripheral
complicating pregnancy or puerperium 646.4

specified nerve NEC - see Mononeuritis
pneumogastric (nerve) 352.3
progressive hypertrophic interstitial NEC 356.9
puerperal, postpartum 646.4
rheumatic (chronic) 729.2
sciatic (nerve) 724.3

due to displacement of intervertebral disc 722.10
specified nerve NEC - see Disorder, nerve
spinal (nerve) 355.9

root (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
subscapular (nerve) 723.4
suprascapular (nerve) 723.4
- Neuropathy, neuropathic (see also Disorder, nerve) 355.9

radicular NEC 729.2
spinal nerve NEC 355.9

root (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
- Pain(s) (see also Painful) 780.96

nerve NEC 729.2
radicular (spinal) (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
root (spinal) (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
spinal root (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
- Perineuritis NEC 729.2
- Policeman's disease 729.2
- Radiculitis (pressure) (vertebrogenic) 729.2
due to displacement of intervertebral disc - see Neuritis, due to, displacement intervertebral disc
rheumatic 729.2
thoracic (with visceral pain) 724.4
- Radiculopathy (see also Radiculitis) 729.2
- Rheumatism, rheumatic (acute NEC) 729.0

neuritis (acute) (chronic) 729.2
radiculitis 729.2
- Syndrome - see also Disease
radicular NEC 729.2
- Tarsalgia 729.2