ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G00-G09 › G05 Encephalitis, myelitis and... › G05.3
Encephalitis and encephalomyelitis in diseases classified elsewhere
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 Encephalitis and encephalomyelitis in diseases classified elsewhere
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 G05 Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis in diseases classified elsewhere
Excludes1 - never coded here
- adenoviral encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (A85.1)
- encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (in) measles (B05.0)
- enteroviral encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (A85.0)
- herpesviral [herpes simplex] encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B00.4)
- listerial encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (A32.12)
- meningococcal encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (A39.81)
- mumps encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B26.2)
- postchickenpox encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B01.1-)
- rubella encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B06.01)
- toxoplasmosis encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B58.2)
- zoster encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B02.0)
Code first
- underlying disease, such as:
- congenital toxoplasmosis encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (P37.1)
- cytomegaloviral encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (B25.8)
- encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (in) systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.19)
- eosinophilic meningoencephalitis (B83.2)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
- poliovirus (A80.-)
- suppurative otitis media (H66.01-H66.4)
- systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.19)
- trichinellosis (B75)
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.
- Myelitis
- Phrenitis
- Cephalitis
- Cerebritis
- Ependymitis
- Cerebellitis
- Fever > brain
- Ventriculitis
- Febris, febrile
- Meningomyelitis
- Mesencephalitis
- Myelomeningitis
- Parencephalitis
- Syringomyelitis
- Fever > cerebral
- Radiculomyelitis
- Encephalomyelitis
- Meningocerebritis
- Myeloencephalitis
- Encephalomeningitis
- Meningoencephalitis
- Meningomyeloneuritis
- Encephalomeningomyelitis
- Encephalomyelomeningitis
- Meningoencephalomyelitis
- Poliomeningoencephalitis
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Myelopathy > in > infection
- Disease, diseased > cerebral
- Infection, infected, infective > brain
- Disease, diseased > brain > inflammatory
- Disease, diseased > cerebellar, cerebellum
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > cord
- Encephalitis > otitic NEC
- Encephalitis > trichinosis
- Encephalitis > in > poliovirus
- Meningoencephalitis > parasitic NEC
Showing 40 of 48 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G05.4 | Myelitis in diseases classified elsewhere | Valid |