ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
G93.81 Temporal sclerosis
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
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Coding notes for G93.81
Applicable to Other names for conditions reported with this code.
- Hippocampal sclerosis
- Mesial temporal sclerosis
Chapter 6 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- 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)
Related codes in G93.8
- G93.82 Brain deathBillable
- G93.89 Other specified disorders of brainBillable
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