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G43.E11

G43.E11Chronic migraine with aura, intractable, with status migrainosus

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

G43.E11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chronic migraine with aura, intractable, with status migrainosus. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G43.E11

These are not written on G43.E11, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing G43.E11 with anything listed here is a denial.

Written on G43.E Chronic migraine with aura

  • migraine with aura (G43.1-)

Written on G43 Migraine

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above G43.E11

Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of G43.E11, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.

Written on G43 Migraine

  • headache NOS (R51.9)
  • headache syndromes (G44.-)

Risk adjustment

G43.E11 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

G43.E11 is named in 20 Medicare coverage policies 20 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

  • A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
  • A55530Billing and Coding: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
  • A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
  • A56619Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography

How G43.E11 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 G43.E11.

  • Migrainewith aurachronicintractablewith status migrainosus
  • Migrainewith aurachronicwith refractory migrainewith status migrainosus

Code history

G43.E11 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share G43.E1. If G43.E11 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about G43.E11

Is G43.E11 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. G43.E11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does G43.E11 sit in the tabular list?
Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47).
What cannot be coded together with G43.E11?
G43.E11 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above G43.E11 (G43.E, G43) and apply to it just the same.
ICD-10-CMFY2026-Apr· effective April 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release — see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.