Chronic migraine with aura, intractable, with status migrainosus

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2024 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2024 to now.

FY2024 Added to the code set Chronic migraine with aura, intractable, with status migrainosus

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 G43 Migraine

Excludes1 - never coded here

lower half migraine (G44.00)

Excludes2 - not included here

headache NOS (R51.9)
headache syndromes (G44.-)

Use additional code

code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

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.

Megrim
Pain > head
Migraine > basilar
Migraine > retinal
Headache > migraine
Syndrome > migraine
Migraine > classical
Cephalgia, cephalalgia
Migraine > equivalents
Hemicrania > meaning migraine
Migraine > triggered seizures
Migraine > preceded or accompanied by transient focal neurological phenomena
Migraine > with aura > chronic > intractable > with status migrainosus
Migraine > with aura > chronic > with refractory migraine > with status migrainosus

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G43.E19	Chronic migraine with aura, intractable, without status migrainosus	Valid