ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G20-G26 › G23 Other degenerative diseases of... › G23.8
Other specified degenerative diseases of basal ganglia
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 Other specified degenerative diseases of basal ganglia
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 G23 Other degenerative diseases of basal ganglia
Excludes2 - not included here
- multi-system degeneration of the autonomic nervous system (G90.3)
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.
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Fahr disease
- Déjérine-Thomas atrophy
- Disease, diseased > Fahr
- Calcification > basal ganglia
- Atrophy, atrophic > Déjérine-Thomas
- Atrophy, atrophic > olivopontocerebellar
- Degeneration, degenerative > olivopontocerebellar
- Disease, diseased > basal ganglia > degenerative > specified NEC
- Degeneration, degenerative > basal nuclei or ganglia > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G23.0 | Hallervorden-Spatz disease | Valid |
| G23.1 | Progressive supranuclear ophthalmoplegia [Steele-Richardson-Olszewski] | Valid |
| G23.2 | Striatonigral degeneration | Valid |
| G23.3 | Hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum | Valid |
| G23.9 | Degenerative disease of basal ganglia, unspecified | Valid |