ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G00-G09 › G03 Meningitis due to other and... › G03.0
Nonpyogenic meningitis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Nonpyogenic meningitis
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.
Inherited from G03 Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes
Excludes1 - never coded here
- meningoencephalitis (G04.-)
- meningomyelitis (G04.-)
Includes
- arachnoiditis NOS
- leptomeningitis NOS
- meningitis NOS
- pachymeningitis NOS
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Arachnitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Fever > spinal
- Perimeningitis
- Febris, febrile
- Hydromeningitis
- Leptomeningitis
- Pachymeningitis
- Effusion > spinal
- Fever > meningeal
- Meningoradiculitis
- Sepsis > meningeal
- Effusion > meninges
- Effusion > cerebrospinal
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Infection, infected, infective > cerebrospinal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > arachnoid
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pia mater
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > dura mater
- Infection, infected, infective > brain > membranes
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral > membrane
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS > meninges
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > membranes of brain or spinal cord
- Meningitis > aseptic
- Meningitis > sterile
- Meningitis > abacterial
- Meningitis > nonbacterial
- Meningitis > nonpyogenic NEC
- Meningitis > serosa circumscripta NEC
- Meningitis > clear cerebrospinal fluid NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G03.1 | Chronic meningitis | Valid |
| G03.2 | Benign recurrent meningitis [Mollaret] | Valid |
| G03.8 | Meningitis due to other specified causes | Valid |
| G03.9 | Meningitis, unspecified | Valid |