G44.201 is the authoritative medical code for Tension-type headache, unspecified, intractable. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for tension-type headache, unspecified, intractable (ICD-10-CM G44.201), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with current federal coding standards.
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for G44.201 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes1 instructions, G44.201 must not be reported together with: headache NOS (R51.9).
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes2 instructions, G44.201 and the following are not considered part of each other and may both be reported when both conditions are present: atypical facial pain (G50.1); headache due to lumbar puncture (G97.1); migraines (G43.-); trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to G44.201 in its code family, with their registry titles.
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.