G61.0
G61.0: Guillain-Barre syndrome
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
G61.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for guillain-barre syndrome. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check G61.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acute (post-)infective polyneuritis
- Miller Fisher Syndrome
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
G61.0 is named in 32 Medicare coverage policies: 28 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 4 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- 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
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Barré-Guillain disease or syndrome
- Encephalomyeloradiculitis(acute)
- Encephalomyeloradiculoneuritis(acute) (Guillain-Barré)
- Guillain-Barré disease or syndrome
- Landry-Guillain-Barré, syndrome or paralysis
- Landry's disease or paralysis
- Miller Fisher syndrome
- Polyradiculoneuropathy(acute) (postinfective) (segmentally demyelinating)
- Disease, diseased›Guillain-Barré
- Disease, diseased›Landry's
- Neuritis›infectious NEC(multiple)
- Neuromyelitis›ascending
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.