G24.02

Drug induced acute dystonia

Billable / specific

G24.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Acute dystonic reaction to drugs
  • Neuroleptic induced acute dystonia

Includes (from G24)

  • dyskinesia

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G24)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G24)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G24)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G24)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G24)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G24)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G24)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G24)
  • athetoid cerebral palsy (G80.3) (from G24)

Use additional code

Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5) (from G24.0)

Also known as

  • Acute dystonic reaction to drugs
  • Neuroleptic induced acute dystonia
  • Dystonia, drug induced NEC, acute
  • Dystonia, neuroleptic induced

Parent code

  • G24.0Drug induced dystoniaHeader

Related codes

  • G24.01Drug induced subacute dyskinesiaBillable
  • G24.09Other drug induced dystoniaBillable

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