G60.1 — Refsum's disease
G60.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for refsum's disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Infantile Refsum disease
Other codes that can never be billed with G60.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at G60.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading G60.1 alone.
Risk adjustment
G60.1 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
G60.1 is named in 31 Medicare coverage policies — 27 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 4 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56034Billing and Coding: Nerve Blockade for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Neuropathynot covered
- A56731Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks and Electrostimulation for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
- A57589Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
- A57663Billing and Coding: Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Neuropathynot covered
How G60.1 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 G60.1.
- Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
- Refsum's disease or syndrome
- Disease, diseased›Refsum's(heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis)
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic›hereditary ataxic
- Syndrome›Refsum's
- Neuropathy, neuropathic›hypertrophic›Refsum
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G60. If G60.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about G60.1
- Is G60.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G60.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G60.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Polyneuropathies and other disorders of the peripheral nervous system (G60-G65).