G89.12
Acute post-thoracotomy pain
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 38 never code together
G89code
Excludes1
Excludes2
- atypical face pain (G50.1)G50.1
- headache syndromes (G44.-)G44.-
- localized pain, unspecified type - code to pain by site, such as:
- abdomen pain (R10.-)R10.-
- back pain (M54.9)M54.9
- breast pain (N64.4)N64.4
- chest pain (R07.1-R07.9)R07.1-R07.9
- ear pain (H92.0-)H92.0-
- eye pain (H57.1)H57.1
- headache (R51.9)R51.9
- joint pain (M25.5-)M25.5-
- limb pain (M79.6-)M79.6-
- lumbar region pain (M54.5-)M54.5-
- painful urination (R30.9)R30.9
- pelvic and perineal pain (R10.2-)R10.2-
- shoulder pain (M25.51-)M25.51-
- spine pain (M54.-)M54.-
- throat pain (R07.0)R07.0
- tongue pain (K14.6)K14.6
- tooth pain (K08.8)K08.8
- renal colic (N23)N23
- migraines (G43.-)G43.-
- myalgia (M79.1-)M79.1-
- pain from prosthetic devices, implants, and grafts (T82.84, T83.84, T84.84, T85.84-)T82.84T83.84T84.84T85.84-
- phantom limb syndrome with pain (G54.6)G54.6
- vulvar vestibulitis (N94.810)N94.810
- vulvodynia (N94.81-)N94.81-
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 2
Alongside this code 2 same parent — G89.1
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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