Billable Medical Code for Syncope and Collapse
Diagnosis Code for Reimbursement Claim: ICD-9-CM 780.2
Code will be replaced by October 2015 and relabeled as ICD-10-CM 780.2.
Known As
Syncope is also know as cough syncope (fainting), micturition syncope, micturition syncope (fainting while urinating), near syncope, near syncope (almost fainted), syncope, syncope (fainting) due to orthostatic hypotension, syncope (fainting), vasovagal, syncope (loss of consciousness, fainting), syncope and collapse (fainting), syncope due to orthostatic hypotension, syncope cough, syncope micturition, syncope vasovagal, transient loss of consciousness, tussive syncope, and vasovagal syncope. This excludes carotid sinus syncope (337.0), heat syncope (992.1), neurocirculatory asthenia (306.2) and orthostatic hypotension (458.0). This applies to blackout, fainting, (near) (pre)syncope, and vasovagal attack.
Syncope Definition and Symptoms
Syncope is temporary loss of consciousness caused by a fall in blood pressure. Also referred to as fainting. Right before a person faints they may feel extremely dizzy and experience tunnel vision.