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Version 2024
Non-Billable Code

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code G82.5

Quadriplegia

ICD-10-CM Code:
G82.5
ICD-10 Code for:
Quadriplegia
Is Billable?
Not Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Diseases of the nervous system
    (G00–G99)
    • Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes
      (G80-G83)
      • Paraplegia and quadriplegia (quadriparesis) (G82)
        (paraparesis)

G82.5 is a non-specific and non-billable diagnosis code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of quadriplegia. The code is not specific and is NOT valid for the year 2024 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. Category or Header define the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th characters.

Specific Coding Applicable to Quadriplegia

Non-specific codes like G82.5 require more digits to indicate the appropriate level of specificity. Consider using any of the following ICD-10-CM codes with a higher level of specificity when coding for quadriplegia:

  • Use G82.50 for Quadriplegia, unspecified - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G82.51 for Quadriplegia, C1-C4 complete - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G82.52 for Quadriplegia, C1-C4 incomplete - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G82.53 for Quadriplegia, C5-C7 complete - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G82.54 for Quadriplegia, C5-C7 incomplete - BILLABLE CODE

Clinical Information

  • Quadriplegia

    severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from brain diseases; spinal cord diseases; peripheral nervous system diseases; neuromuscular diseases; or rarely muscular diseases. the locked-in syndrome is characterized by quadriplegia in combination with cranial muscle paralysis. consciousness is spared and the only retained voluntary motor activity may be limited eye movements. this condition is usually caused by a lesion in the upper brain stem which injures the descending cortico-spinal and cortico-bulbar tracts.

Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.