Other specified myopathies

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:

G72.81 Critical illness myopathy
G72.89 Other specified myopathies

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 Other specified myopathies

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.-)

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
G72.3	Periodic paralysis	Valid
G72.4	Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified	Not billable
G72.9	Myopathy, unspecified	Valid