G25.0 — Essential tremor
G25.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for essential tremor. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — 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
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at G25.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading G25.0 alone.
- R25.1Tremor, unspecified
Risk adjustment
G25.0 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
G25.0 is named in 30 Medicare coverage policies — 30 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56619Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56690Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Image Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
How G25.0 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 G25.0.
- Tremor›essential(benign)
- Tremor›familial
- Tremor›hereditary
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G25. If G25.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about G25.0
- Is G25.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G25.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G25.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Extrapyramidal and movement disorders (G20-G26).
- What cannot be coded together with G25.0?
- G25.0 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.