G52.9

Cranial nerve disorder, unspecified

Billable / specific

G52.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • current traumatic nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders - see Injury, nerve by body region (from G52)
  • neuralgia NOS (M79.2) (from G52)
  • neuritis NOS (M79.2) (from G52)
  • peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-) (from G52)
  • radiculitis NOS (M54.1-) (from G52)

Excludes2

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

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G52)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G52)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G52)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G52)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G52)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G52)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G52)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G52)
  • disorders of acoustic [8th] nerve (H93.3) (from G52)
  • disorders of optic [2nd] nerve (H46, H47.0) (from G52)
  • paralytic strabismus due to nerve palsy (H49.0-H49.2) (from G52)

Also known as

  • Atrophy, atrophic, nerve, cranial
  • Compression, cranial nerve
  • Disease, diseased, cranial nerve NOS
  • Disorder, nerve, cranial
  • Lesion, cranial nerve
  • Lesion, cranial nerve, eleventh
  • Paralysis, paralytic, cranial or cerebral nerve
  • Paralysis, paralytic, nerve, cranial or cerebral

Parent code

  • G52Disorders of other cranial nervesHeader

Related codes

  • G52.0Disorders of olfactory nerveBillable
  • G52.1Disorders of glossopharyngeal nerveBillable
  • G52.2Disorders of vagus nerveBillable
  • G52.3Disorders of hypoglossal nerveBillable
  • G52.7Disorders of multiple cranial nervesBillable
  • G52.8Disorders of other specified cranial nervesBillable

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