ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G50-G59 › G54 Nerve root and plexus disorders › G54.9
Nerve root and plexus disorder, unspecified
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 Nerve root and plexus disorder, 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 G54 Nerve root and plexus disorders
Excludes1 - never coded here
- current traumatic nerve root and plexus disorders - see nerve injury by body region
- intervertebral disc disorders (M50-M51)
- neuralgia or neuritis NOS (M79.2)
- neuritis or radiculitis brachial NOS (M54.13)
- neuritis or radiculitis lumbar NOS (M54.16)
- neuritis or radiculitis lumbosacral NOS (M54.17)
- neuritis or radiculitis thoracic NOS (M54.14)
- radiculitis NOS (M54.10)
- radiculopathy NOS (M54.10)
- spondylosis (M47.-)
Inherited from the G50-G59 section Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders (G50-G59)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- current traumatic nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders - see Injury, nerve by body region
- neuralgia NOS (M79.2)
- neuritis NOS (M79.2)
- peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-)
- radiculitis NOS (M54.1-)
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.
- Neurophthisis
- Neurosclerosis
- Endoperineuritis
- Irritation > nerve
- Compression > nerve
- Atrophy, atrophic > nerve
- Disease, diseased > nerve
- Paralysis, paralytic > nerve
- Degeneration, degenerative > nerve
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > ischemic
- Degeneration, degenerative > Wallerian
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > nerve
- Disorder > plexus
- Disorder > nerve > root
- Compression > spinal > nerve root NOS
- Compression > nerve > root or plexus NOS
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G54.0 | Brachial plexus disorders | Valid |
| G54.1 | Lumbosacral plexus disorders | Valid |
| G54.2 | Cervical root disorders, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| G54.3 | Thoracic root disorders, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| G54.4 | Lumbosacral root disorders, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| G54.5 | Neuralgic amyotrophy | Valid |
| G54.6 | Phantom limb syndrome with pain | Valid |
| G54.7 | Phantom limb syndrome without pain | Valid |
| G54.8 | Other nerve root and plexus disorders | Valid |