G82.21 — Paraplegia, complete
G82.21 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for paraplegia, complete. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
G82.21 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 181 Paraplegia0.942 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
G82.21 is named in 37 Medicare coverage policies — 37 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52465Knee Orthoses - Policy Article
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
- A53058Billing and Coding: Home Health Physical Therapy
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
How G82.21 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 G82.21.
- Paraplegia›complete
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G82.2. If G82.21 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about G82.21
- Is G82.21 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. G82.21 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does G82.21 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes (G80-G83).