G80.8 — Other cerebral palsy
G80.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other cerebral palsy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Mixed cerebral palsy syndromes
Risk adjustment
G80.8 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 192 Cerebral Palsy, Except Quadriplegic0.314 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
G80.8 is named in 40 Medicare coverage policies — 40 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
- A53058Billing and Coding: Home Health Physical Therapy
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
How G80.8 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 G80.8.
- Diplegia›congenital(cerebral)
- Hemiplegia›congenital(cerebral)
- Monoplegia›congenital(cerebral)
- Paraplegia›congenital(cerebral)
- Quadriplegia›congenital(cerebral) (spinal)
- Triplegia›congenital
- Palsy›cerebral›diplegic
- Palsy›cerebral›hemiplegic
- Palsy›cerebral›mixed
- Palsy›cerebral›monoplegic
- Palsy›cerebral›paraplegic
- Palsy›cerebral›quadriplegic
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G80. If G80.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about G80.8
- Is G80.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G80.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G80.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes (G80-G83).