Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

G40.10 Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures, not intractable (also a header)
G40.11 Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures, intractable (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures

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 G40 Epilepsy and recurrent seizures

Excludes1 - never coded here

conversion disorder with seizures (F44.5)
convulsions NOS (R56.9)
post traumatic seizures (R56.1)
seizure (convulsive) NOS (R56.9)
seizure of newborn (P90)

Excludes2 - not included here

hippocampal sclerosis (G93.81)
mesial temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
Todd's paralysis (G83.84)

Note

the following terms are to be considered equivalent to intractable: pharmacoresistant (pharmacologically resistant), treatment resistant, refractory (medically) and poorly controlled

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.

Seizure
Comatose
Convulsive
Paramnesia
Convulsions
Unconscious
Loss > memory
Pseudotetanus
Lafora disease
Fit > epileptic
Coma > epileptic
Lack of > memory
Morbus > caducus
Disorder > seizure
Postsurgery status
Seizure > disorder
State > convulsive
Stroke > epileptic
Morbus > comitialis
Seizure > epileptic
Disturbance > memory
Seizure > convulsive
Syndrome > epileptic
Disorder > convulsive
Convulsions > epileptic
Attack, attacks > epileptic
Status > absence, epileptic
Fugue > postictal in epilepsy
Amnesia > postictal in epilepsy
Disease, diseased > Lafora body
Status > epileptic, epilepticus
Memory disturbance, lack or loss
Status > convulsivus idiopathicus
Convulsions > infantile > epilepsy
Dysrhythmia > cerebral or cortical
Convulsions > epileptiform, epileptoid
Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > coma
Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > amnesia
Symptoms NEC > involving > cognitive functions > coma
Symptoms NEC > involving > cognitive functions > amnesia

Showing 40 of 42 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G40.0	Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with seizures of localized onset	Not billable
G40.2	Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures	Not billable
G40.3	Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes	Not billable
G40.4	Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes	Not billable
G40.5	Epileptic seizures related to external causes	Not billable
G40.8	Other epilepsy and recurrent seizures	Not billable
G40.9	Epilepsy, unspecified	Not billable
G40.A	Absence epileptic syndrome	Not billable
G40.B	Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy [impulsive petit mal]	Not billable
G40.C	Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy	Not billable