Flaccid hemiplegia
Non-billable header
G81.0 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from G81)
- Note: This category is to be used only when hemiplegia (complete)(incomplete) is reported without further specification, or is stated to be old or longstanding but of unspecified cause. The category is also for use in multiple coding to identify these types of hemiplegia resulting from any cause.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G81)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G81)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G81)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G81)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G81)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G81)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G81)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G81)
Also known as
- Hemiplegia, flaccid
Parent code
- G81Hemiplegia and hemiparesisHeader
More specific codes G81.0
- G81.00Flaccid hemiplegia affecting unspecified sideBillable
- G81.01Flaccid hemiplegia affecting right dominant sideBillable
- G81.02Flaccid hemiplegia affecting left dominant sideBillable
- G81.03Flaccid hemiplegia affecting right nondominant sideBillable
- G81.04Flaccid hemiplegia affecting left nondominant sideBillable