ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G60-G65 › G61 Inflammatory polyneuropathy › G61.0
Guillain-Barre syndrome
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 Guillain-Barre syndrome
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 the G60-G65 section Polyneuropathies and other disorders of the peripheral nervous system (G60-G65)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- neuralgia NOS (M79.2)
- neuritis NOS (M79.2)
- peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-)
- radiculitis NOS (M54.10)
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.
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Syndrome > Fisher's
- Miller Fisher syndrome
- Polyradiculoneuropathy
- Syndrome > Miller-Fisher
- Encephalomyeloradiculitis
- Neuritis > infectious NEC
- Neuromyelitis > ascending
- Syndrome > Barré-Guillain
- Syndrome > Guillain-Barré
- Disease, diseased > Landry's
- Landry's disease or paralysis
- Encephalomyeloradiculoneuritis
- Paralysis, paralytic > Landry's
- Barré-Guillain disease or syndrome
- Disease, diseased > Guillain-Barré
- Guillain-Barré disease or syndrome
- Ophthalmoplegia > ataxia-areflexia
- Neuritis > multiple > infective, acute
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > infective
- Paralysis, paralytic > ascending, acute
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > spinal > ascending
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > postinfective
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > acuteinfective
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > febrile, acute
- Landry-Guillain-Barré, syndrome or paralysis
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > idiopathic, acute
- Paralysis, paralytic > spinal > ascending acute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G61.1 | Serum neuropathy | Valid |
| G61.8 | Other inflammatory polyneuropathies | Not billable |
| G61.9 | Inflammatory polyneuropathy, unspecified | Valid |