ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G00-G09 › G04 Encephalitis, myelitis and... › G04.1
Tropical spastic paraplegia
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 Tropical spastic paraplegia
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 G04 Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- encephalopathy NOS (G93.40)
Excludes2 - not included here
- acute transverse myelitis (G37.3)
- alcoholic encephalopathy (G31.2)
- multiple sclerosis (G35-)
- myalgic encephalomyelitis (G93.32)
- subacute necrotizing myelitis (G37.4)
- toxic encephalitis (G92.8)
- toxic encephalopathy (G92.8)
Includes
- acute ascending myelitis
- meningoencephalitis
- meningomyelitis
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.
- Paraparesis
- Paralysis, paralytic > leg > both
- Paralysis, paralytic > lower limb > both
- Paraplegia > tropical spastic
- Paraplegia > spastic > tropical
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G04.0 | Acute disseminated encephalitis and encephalomyelitis (ADEM) | Not billable |
| G04.2 | Bacterial meningoencephalitis and meningomyelitis, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| G04.3 | Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalopathy | Not billable |
| G04.8 | Other encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis | Not billable |
| G04.9 | Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis, unspecified | Not billable |