G72.8

G72.8: Other specified myopathies

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

G72.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified myopathies. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G72.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on G72: Other and unspecified myopathies

arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (Q74.3)
dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
ischemic infarction of muscle (M62.2-)
myositis (M60.-)
polymyositis (M33.2.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead G72.8

2 child codes. Green means billable.

G72.81Critical illness myopathy
G72.89Other specified myopathies

Other codes under G72

G72.0Drug-induced myopathy
G72.1Alcoholic myopathy
G72.2Myopathy due to other toxic agents
G72.3Periodic paralysis
G72.4Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified
G72.9Myopathy, unspecified