G25.0
G25.0: Essential tremor
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
G25.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for essential tremor. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check G25.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- tremor NOS (R25.1)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Familial tremor
Other codes that can never be billed with G25.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R25.1Tremor, unspecified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
G25.0 is named in 23 Medicare coverage policies: 23 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56619Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Tremor›essential(benign)
- Tremor›familial
- Tremor›hereditary
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under G25
- G25.1Drug-induced tremor
- G25.2Other specified forms of tremor
- G25.3Myoclonus
- G25.4Drug-induced chorea
- G25.5Other chorea
- G25.6Drug induced tics and other tics of organic origin
- G25.7Other and unspecified drug induced movement disorders
- G25.8Other specified extrapyramidal and movement disorders
- G25.9Extrapyramidal and movement disorder, unspecified