G25.83 — Benign shuddering attacks
G25.83 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for benign shuddering attacks. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
G25.83 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
G25.83 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How G25.83 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 G25.83.
- Attack, attacks›benign shuddering
- Attack, attacks›shuddering, benign
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G25.8. If G25.83 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about G25.83
- Is G25.83 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G25.83 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G25.83 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Extrapyramidal and movement disorders (G20-G26).