G03.1

G03.1: Chronic meningitis

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

G03.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chronic meningitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check G03.1 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G03.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on G03: Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes

meningoencephalitis (G04.-)
meningomyelitis (G04.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

G03.1 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A56799Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
A57206Billing and Coding: Lumbar MRI

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Meningitis›chronic NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.