ICD-10-CM Code G72.4
Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code G72.4 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of G72.4 that describes the diagnosis 'inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified' in more detail.
The ICD code G724 is used to code Inflammatory myopathy
Inflammatory myopathy (inflammatory muscle disease or myositis) is disease featuring weakness and inflammation of muscles and (in some types) muscle pain. The cause of much inflammatory myopathy is unknown (idiopathic), and such cases are classified according to their symptoms and signs and electromyography, MRI and laboratory findings. The main classes of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy are polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), and inclusion-body myositis (IBM).
| Specialty: | Neurology |
| MeSH Codes: | D009220, D009220, D009220 |
| ICD 9 Codes: | 359.6, 710.3, 710.4 |
Gottron's papules on the hand of a patient with juvenile dermatomyositis.
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Symptomatic inflammatory myopathy associated with another disorder (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for additional code to fully describe disease or condition
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'G72.4 - Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified'
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Parent Code: G72 - Other and unspecified myopathies