G96.9 - Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified
| ICD-10: | G96.9 |
| Short Description: | Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified |
| Long Description: | Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified |
| Status: | Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
| Code Classification: |
G96.9 is a billable ICD-10 code used to specify a medical diagnosis of disorder of central nervous system, unspecified. The code is valid during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
Unspecified diagnosis codes like G96.9 are acceptable when clinical information is unknown or not available about a particular condition. Although a more specific code is preferable, unspecified codes should be used when such codes most accurately reflect what is known about a patient's condition. Specific diagnosis codes should not be used if not supported by the patient's medical record.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Acute lymphoid leukemia in remission
- Central nervous disorder with AIDS
- Central nervous system complication
- Central nervous system dysfunction in newborn
- Dementia due to disorder of central nervous system
- Disorder of central nervous system co-occurrent and due to acute lymphoid leukemia
- Disorder of central nervous system co-occurrent and due to acute lymphoid leukemia in remission
- Disorder of central nervous system co-occurrent with human immunodeficiency virus infection
- Disorder of central nervous system due to xeroderma pigmentosum
- Disorder of meninges
- Disorder of neurometabolic regulation
- Disorder of the central nervous system
- Encephalomyelopathy
- Functional disease of the CNS with neuroendocrine disturbance
- Headache due to intracranial disease
- Neuropathic spondylopathy
- Tremor due to central nervous system disease
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index:
- - Complication (s) (from) (of)
- - nervous system - G98.8
- - central - G96.9
- - nervous system - G98.8
- - Disease, diseased - See Also: Syndrome;
- - cerebrospinal - G96.9
- - nervous system - G98.8
- - central - G96.9
- - Disorder (of) - See Also: Disease;
- - nervous system - G98.8
- - central - G96.9
- - nervous system - G98.8
- - Encephalomyelopathy - G96.9
- - Encephalomyeloradiculopathy - G96.9
- - Meningoencephalomyelopathy - G96.9
- - Meningoencephalopathy - G96.9
Convert to ICD-9 Code
| Source ICD-10 Code | Target ICD-9 Code | |
|---|---|---|
| G96.9 | 349.9 - Cns disorder NOS | |
| Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code. | ||
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Code History
- 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 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
