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G03

Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 5 more specific codes instead:

  • G03.0 Nonpyogenic meningitis
  • G03.1 Chronic meningitis
  • G03.2 Benign recurrent meningitis [Mollaret]
  • G03.8 Meningitis due to other specified causes
  • G03.9 Meningitis, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • meningoencephalitis (G04.-)
  • meningomyelitis (G04.-)

Includes

  • arachnoiditis NOS
  • leptomeningitis NOS
  • meningitis NOS
  • pachymeningitis NOS