Hereditary ataxia, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Hereditary ataxia, unspecified

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 G11 Hereditary ataxia

Excludes2 - not included here

cerebral palsy (G80.-)
hereditary and idiopathic neuropathy (G60.-)
metabolic disorders (E70-E88)

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.

Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > heredofamilial
Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > family, familial
Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > brain
Paralysis, paralytic > ataxic
Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > cerebral
Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > cerebellar
Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > hereditary
Syndrome > cerebellar > hereditary
Disease, diseased > spinocerebellar
Sclerosis, sclerotic > hereditary > cerebellar
Degeneration, degenerative > cerebellar NOS > primary

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G11.0	Congenital nonprogressive ataxia	Valid
G11.1	Early-onset cerebellar ataxia	Not billable
G11.2	Late-onset cerebellar ataxia	Valid
G11.3	Cerebellar ataxia with defective DNA repair	Valid
G11.4	Hereditary spastic paraplegia	Valid
G11.5	Hypomyelination - hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - hypodontia	Valid
G11.6	Leukodystrophy with vanishing white matter disease	Valid
G11.8	Other hereditary ataxias	Valid