Other toxic encephalopathy
Billable / specific
G92.8 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
- Toxic encephalitis
- Toxic metabolic encephalopathy
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G92)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G92)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G92)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G92)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G92)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G92)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G92)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G92)
Code first
Sequence the underlying condition first.
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Toxic encephalitis
- Toxic metabolic encephalopathy
- Bromidism, bromism
- Encephalitis, toxic NEC
- Encephalopathy, due to drugs
- Encephalopathy, metabolic, drug induced
- Encephalopathy, metabolic, toxic
- Encephalopathy, toxic, metabolic
- Jamaican, neuropathy
- Jamaican, paraplegic tropical ataxic-spastic syndrome
- Leukoencephalopathy, heroin vapor
- Meningoencephalitis, toxic NEC
Parent code
- G92Toxic encephalopathyHeader