Benign intracranial hypertension
Billable / specific
G93.2 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
- Pseudotumor
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 G93)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G93)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G93)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G93)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G93)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G93)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G93)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G93)
Also known as
- Pseudotumor
- Hydrocephalus, otitic
- Hypertension, hypertensive, benign, intracranial
- Hypertension, hypertensive, intracranial, benign
- Increase, increased, intracranial pressure
- Increase, increased, pressure, intracranial
- Meningitis, serous NEC
- Pressure, increased, intracranial benign,
- Pseudohydrocephalus
- Pseudotumor, cerebri
- Symond's syndrome
- Syndrome, serous meningitis
- Syndrome, Symond's
Parent code
- G93Other disorders of brainHeader
Related codes
- G93.0Cerebral cystsBillable
- G93.1Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- G93.3Postviral and related fatigue syndromesHeader
- G93.4Other and unspecified encephalopathyHeader
- G93.5Compression of brainBillable
- G93.6Cerebral edemaBillable
- G93.7Reye's syndromeBillable
- G93.8Other specified disorders of brainHeader
- G93.9Disorder of brain, unspecifiedBillable