ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G70-G73 › G72 Other and unspecified myopathies › G72.3
Periodic paralysis
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 Periodic paralysis
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 G72 Other and unspecified myopathies
Excludes1 - never coded here
- arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (Q74.3)
- dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
- ischemic infarction of muscle (M62.2-)
- myositis (M60.-)
- polymyositis (M33.2.-)
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.
- Adynamia
- Cavare's disease
- Gamstorp's disease
- Disease, diseased > Cavare's
- Disease, diseased > Gamstorp's
- Paralysis, paralytic > familial
- Paralysis, paralytic > periodic
- Paralysis, paralytic > hypokalemic periodic
- Paralysis, paralytic > hyperkalemic periodic
- Paralysis, paralytic > normokalemic periodic
- Disease, diseased > familial periodic paralysis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G72.0 | Drug-induced myopathy | Valid |
| G72.1 | Alcoholic myopathy | Valid |
| G72.2 | Myopathy due to other toxic agents | Valid |
| G72.4 | Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| G72.8 | Other specified myopathies | Not billable |
| G72.9 | Myopathy, unspecified | Valid |