G11.6 — Leukodystrophy with vanishing white matter disease
G11.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for leukodystrophy with vanishing white matter disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
G11.6 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 200 Friedreich and Other Hereditary Ataxias; Huntington Disease0.279 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
G11.6 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 0 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56562Billing and Coding: Health and Behavior Assessment/Interventionnot covered
How G11.6 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to G11.6.
- Leukodystrophy›with vanishing white matter disease
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G11. If G11.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- G11.0Congenital nonprogressive ataxia
- G11.1Early-onset cerebellar ataxia
- G11.2Late-onset cerebellar ataxia
- G11.3Cerebellar ataxia with defective DNA repair
- G11.4Hereditary spastic paraplegia
- G11.5Hypomyelination - hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - hypodontia
- G11.8Other hereditary ataxias
- G11.9Hereditary ataxia, unspecified
Questions about G11.6
- Is G11.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G11.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G11.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the central nervous system (G10-G14).