Hemiplegia and hemiparesis - G81
G81 Category in ICD-10-CM facilitate the systematic organization of medical information for accurate and standardized healthcare practices.
Category Notes:
- This category is to be used only when hemiplegia (complete)(incomplete) is reported without further specification, or is stated to be old or longstanding but of unspecified cause. The category is also for use in multiple coding to identify these types of hemiplegia resulting from any cause.
Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.
Type 1 Excludes:
- congenital cerebral palsy (G80.-)
- hemiplegia and hemiparesis due to sequela of cerebrovascular disease (I69.05-, I69.15-, I69.25-, I69.35-, I69.85-, I69.95-)
These ranges represents subcategories of Hemiplegia and hemiparesis. The "G81" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- G81.0 - Flaccid hemiplegia
- G81.00 - Flaccid hemiplegia affecting unspecified side
- G81.01 - Flaccid hemiplegia affecting right dominant side
- G81.02 - Flaccid hemiplegia affecting left dominant side
- G81.03 - Flaccid hemiplegia affecting right nondominant side
- G81.04 - Flaccid hemiplegia affecting left nondominant side
- G81.1 - Spastic hemiplegia
- G81.10 - Spastic hemiplegia affecting unspecified side
- G81.11 - Spastic hemiplegia affecting right dominant side
- G81.12 - Spastic hemiplegia affecting left dominant side
- G81.13 - Spastic hemiplegia affecting right nondominant side
- G81.14 - Spastic hemiplegia affecting left nondominant side
- G81.9 - Hemiplegia, unspecified
- G81.90 - Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting unspecified side
- G81.91 - Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting right dominant side
- G81.92 - Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting left dominant side
- G81.93 - Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting right nondominant side
- G81.94 - Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting left nondominant side