G40.A
G40.A: Absence epileptic syndrome
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
G40.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for absence epileptic syndrome. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Childhood absence epilepsy [pyknolepsy]
- Juvenile absence epilepsy
- Absence epileptic syndrome, NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G40.A
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above G40.A
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with G40.A
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead G40.A
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under G40
- G40.0Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with seizures of localized onset
- G40.1Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures
- G40.2Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures
- G40.3Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes
- G40.BJuvenile myoclonic epilepsy [impulsive petit mal]
- G40.CLafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy
- G40.4Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes
- G40.5Epileptic seizures related to external causes
- G40.8Other epilepsy and recurrent seizures
- G40.9Epilepsy, unspecified