G71.034
G71.034 — Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to sarcoglycan dysfunction
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
G71.034 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to sarcoglycan dysfunction. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
G71.034 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.
Code to one of these instead G71.034
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- G71.0340Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to sarcoglycan dysfunction, unspecified
- G71.0341Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to alpha sarcoglycan dysfunction
- G71.0342Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to beta sarcoglycan dysfunction
- G71.0349Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to other sarcoglycan dysfunction
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G71.03. If G71.034 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- G71.031Autosomal dominant limb girdle muscular dystrophy
- G71.032Autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to calpain-3 dysfunction
- G71.033Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to dysferlin dysfunction
- G71.035Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to anoctamin-5 dysfunction
- G71.036Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to fukutin related protein dysfunction
- G71.038Other limb girdle muscular dystrophy
- G71.039Limb girdle muscular dystrophy, unspecified
Questions about G71.034
- Is G71.034 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. G71.034 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does G71.034 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Diseases of myoneural junction and muscle (G70-G73).