G71.00 — Muscular dystrophy, unspecified
G71.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for muscular dystrophy, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
G71.00 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 197 Muscular Dystrophy0.426 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
G71.00 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies — 15 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52494High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation Devices - Policy Article
- A52510Mechanical In-exsufflation Devices - Policy Article
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
How G71.00 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 G71.00.
- Dystrophy, dystrophia›muscular
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G71.0. If G71.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about G71.00
- Is G71.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G71.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G71.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Diseases of myoneural junction and muscle (G70-G73).