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G72

Non-Billable
ChapterG00–G99
Rankcategory
Official Description

Other and unspecified myopathies

Metadata & Insights
  • •2026 ICD-10-CM Edition - Effective October 1, 2025.
  • •Non-billable category (requires more specific sub-code).
  • •Chapter 6: Diseases of the Nervous System (G00-G99).

CH6 Parent Instructions

Excludes2(Not included here)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Instructional Notes

Excludes1(Not coded here)
  • arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (Q74.3)
  • dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
  • ischemic infarction of muscle (M62.2-)
  • myositis (M60.-)
  • polymyositis (M33.2.-)

Clinical Hierarchy

CH6Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
G70-G73Diseases of myoneural junction and muscle (G70-G73)
G72Other and unspecified myopathies
G72.0Drug-induced myopathy
G72.1Alcoholic myopathy
G72.2Myopathy due to other toxic agents
G72.3Periodic paralysis
G72.4Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified
G72.8Other specified myopathies
G72.9Myopathy, unspecified

Applicable Ancestor Context

The following parent sections contain instructions or notes that apply to G72:

chapterCH6
Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
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Alphabetic Index Mentions

These are Diagnosis Index lookup paths that route to G72. Use them as entry terms for search, then confirm final coding instructions in the Tabular List and notes above.

25 raw paths
Adynamia (episodica) (hereditary) (periodic)1 unique routes
Direct index entry→G72
Cavare's disease (familial periodic paralysis)1 unique routes
Direct index entry→G72
Disease, diseased3 unique routes
Cavare's (familial periodic paralysis)→G72
familial periodic paralysis→G72
Gamstorp's (adynamia episodica hereditaria)→G72
Gamstorp's disease (adynamia episodica hereditaria)1 unique routes
Direct index entry→G72
Myopathy16 unique routes
Direct index entry→G72
acute(2 variants)
necrotizing→G72
quadriplegic→G72
alcoholic→G72
critical illness→G72
drug-induced→G72
immune NEC→G72
in (due to)(3 variants)
alcohol→G72
drugs→G72
toxic agent NEC→G72
inflammatory NEC→G72
intensive care (ICU)→G72
of critical illness→G72
progressive NEC→G72
specified NEC→G72
toxic→G72
Myositis1 unique routes
inclusion body [IBM]→G72
Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete)2 unique routes
familial (recurrent) (periodic)→G72
hyperkalemic periodic (familial)→G72

MS-DRG Classification

2026

No direct MS-DRG triggers identified.

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