Version 2024

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code G70

Myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders

ICD-10-CM Code:
G70
ICD-10 Code for:
Myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders
Is Billable?
Not Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Diseases of the nervous system
    (G00–G99)
    • Diseases of myoneural junction and muscle
      (G70-G73)
      • Myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders
        (G70)

G70 is a non-specific and non-billable diagnosis code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders. 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 Myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders

Non-specific codes like G70 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 myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders:

  • G70.0 for Myasthenia gravis - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.00 for Myasthenia gravis without (acute) exacerbation - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.01 for Myasthenia gravis with (acute) exacerbation - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.1 for Toxic myoneural disorders - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.2 for Congenital and developmental myasthenia - BILLABLE CODE

  • G70.8 for Other specified myoneural disorders - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.80 for Lambert-Eaton syndrome, unspecified - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.81 for Lambert-Eaton syndrome in disease classified elsewhere - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.89 for Other specified myoneural disorders - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use G70.9 for Myoneural disorder, unspecified - BILLABLE CODE

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.


Type 1 Excludes

Type 1 Excludes
A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.

Patient Education


Myasthenia Gravis

Myasthenia gravis is a disease that causes weakness in your voluntary muscles. These are the muscles that you control. For example, you may have weakness in the muscles for eye movement, facial expressions, and swallowing. You can also have weakness in other muscles. This weakness gets worse with activity, and better with rest.

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease. Your body's immune system makes antibodies that block or change some of the nerve signals to your muscles. This makes your muscles weaker.

Other conditions can cause muscle weakness, so myasthenia gravis can be hard to diagnose. Tests used to make a diagnosis include blood, nerve, muscle, and imaging tests.

With treatment, the muscle weakness often gets much better. Medicines can help improve nerve-to-muscle messages and make muscles stronger. Other drugs keep your body from making so many abnormal antibodies. These medicines can have major side effects, so they should be used carefully. There are also treatments which filter abnormal antibodies from the blood or add healthy antibodies from donated blood. Sometimes, surgery to take out the thymus gland helps.

Some people with myasthenia gravis go into remission. This means that they do not have symptoms. The remission is usually temporary, but sometimes it can be permanent.

NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke


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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.