ICD-10 Code for Paralysis
The default ICD-10-CM 2027 code for paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) is G83.9 – Paralytic syndrome, unspecified. More specific codes depend on the details documented, as listed in the official index (106 codes, 92 billable).
- Main code
G83.9– Paralytic syndrome, unspecified- Billable
- Yes
Index entries for Paralysis
- with
- syphilis –
A52.17
- syphilis –
- abducens, abducent (nerve) – see Strabismus, paralytic, sixth nerve
- abductor, lower extremity –
G57.9-(header) - accessory nerve –
G52.8 - accommodation – see also Paresis, of accommodation
- hysterical –
F44.89
- hysterical –
- acoustic nerve (except Deafness)
- agitans –
G20.C– see also Parkinsonism- arteriosclerotic –
G21.4
- arteriosclerotic –
- alternating (oculomotor) –
G83.89 - amyotrophic –
G12.21 - ankle –
G57.9-(header) - anus (sphincter) –
K62.89 - arm – see Monoplegia, upper limb
- ascending (spinal) –
G61.0 - association –
G12.29 - asthenic bulbar –
G70.00 - ataxic (hereditary) –
G11.9- general (syphilitic) –
A52.17
- general (syphilitic) –
- atrophic –
G58.9- infantile, acute – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- progressive –
G12.22 - spinal (acute) – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- axillary –
G54.0 - Babinski-Nageotte's –
G83.89 - Bell's –
G51.0- newborn –
P11.3
- newborn –
- Benedikt's –
G46.3 - birth injury –
P14.9- spinal cord –
P11.5
- spinal cord –
- bladder (neurogenic) (sphincter) –
N31.2 - bowel, colon or intestine –
K56.0 - brachial plexus –
G54.0 - brain –
G83.9 - bronchial –
J98.09 - Brown-Séquard –
G83.81 - bulbar (chronic) (progressive) –
G12.22- infantile – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- poliomyelitic – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- pseudo –
G12.29
- bulbospinal –
G70.00 - cardiac –
I50.9– see also Failure, heart - cerebrocerebellar, diplegic –
G80.1 - cervical
- Céstan-Chenais –
G46.3 - Charcot-Marie-Tooth type –
G60.0 - Clark's –
G80.9 - colon –
K56.0 - compressed air –
T70.3(header) - compression
- congenital (cerebral) – see Palsy, cerebral
- conjugate movement (gaze) (of eye) –
H51.0- cortical (nuclear) (supranuclear) –
H51.0
- cortical (nuclear) (supranuclear) –
- cordis – see Failure, heart
- cranial or cerebral nerve –
G52.9 - creeping –
G12.22 - crossed leg –
G83.89 - crutch – see Injury, brachial plexus
- deglutition –
R13.0- hysterical –
F44.4
- hysterical –
- dementia –
A52.17 - descending (spinal) –
G12.29 - diaphragm (flaccid) –
J98.6- due to accidental dissection of phrenic nerve during procedure – see Puncture, accidental complicating surgery
- digestive organs NEC –
K59.89 - diplegic – see Diplegia
- divergence (nuclear) –
H51.8 - diver's –
T70.3(header) - Duchenne's
- due to intracranial or spinal birth injury – see Palsy, cerebral
- embolic (current episode) –
I63.4-(header) - Erb (-Duchenne) (birth) (newborn) –
P14.0 - Erb's syphilitic spastic spinal –
A52.17 - esophagus –
K22.89 - eye muscle (extrinsic) –
H49.9- intrinsic – see also Paresis, of accommodation
- facial (nerve) –
G51.0- birth injury –
P11.3 - congenital –
P11.3 - following operation NEC – see Puncture, accidental complicating surgery
- newborn (birth injury) –
P11.3
- birth injury –
- familial (recurrent) (periodic) –
G72.3- spastic –
G11.4
- spastic –
- fauces –
J39.2 - finger –
G56.9-(header) - gait –
R26.1 - gastric nerve (nondiabetic) –
G52.2 - gaze, conjugate –
H51.0 - general (progressive) (syphilitic) –
A52.17- juvenile –
A50.45
- juvenile –
- glottis –
J38.00 - gluteal –
G54.1 - Gubler (-Millard) –
G46.3 - hand – see Monoplegia, upper limb
- heart – see Arrest, cardiac
- hemiplegic – see Hemiplegia
- hyperkalemic periodic (familial) –
G72.3 - hypoglossal (nerve) –
G52.3 - hypokalemic periodic –
G72.3 - hysterical –
F44.4 - ileus –
K56.0 - infantile –
A80.30– see also Poliomyelitis, paralytic- bulbar – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- cerebral – see Palsy, cerebral
- spastic – see Palsy, cerebral, spastic
- infective – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- inferior nuclear –
G83.9 - internuclear – see Ophthalmoplegia, internuclear
- intestine –
K56.0 - iris –
H57.09- due to diphtheria (toxin) –
A36.89
- due to diphtheria (toxin) –
- ischemic, Volkmann's (complicating trauma) –
T79.6(header) - Jackson's –
G83.89 - jake – see Poisoning, food, noxious, plant
- Jamaica ginger (jake) –
G62.2 - juvenile general –
A50.45 - Klumpke (-Déjérine) (birth) (newborn) –
P14.1 - labioglossal (laryngeal) (pharyngeal) –
G12.29 - Landry's –
G61.0 - laryngeal nerve (recurrent) (superior) (unilateral) –
J38.00 - larynx –
J38.00 - lateral –
G12.23 - lead
- left side – see Hemiplegia
- leg –
G83.1-(header)- both – see Paraplegia
- crossed –
G83.89 - hysterical –
F44.4 - psychogenic –
F44.4 - transient or transitory –
R29.818- traumatic NEC – see Injury, nerve, leg
- levator palpebrae superioris – see Blepharoptosis, paralytic
- limb – see Monoplegia
- lip –
K13.0 - Lissauer's –
A52.17 - lower limb – see Monoplegia, lower limb
- both – see Paraplegia
- lung –
J98.4 - median nerve –
G56.1-(header) - medullary (tegmental) –
G83.89 - mesencephalic NEC –
G83.89- tegmental –
G83.89
- tegmental –
- middle alternating –
G83.89 - Millard-Gubler-Foville –
G46.3 - monoplegic – see Monoplegia
- motor –
G83.9 - muscle, muscular NEC –
G72.89- due to nerve lesion –
G58.9 - eye (extrinsic) –
H49.9- intrinsic – see Paresis, of accommodation
- oblique – see Strabismus, paralytic, fourth nerve
- iris sphincter –
H21.9 - ischemic (Volkmann's) (complicating trauma) –
T79.6(header) - progressive –
G12.21 - progressive, spinal –
G12.25 - spinal progressive –
G12.25 - pseudohypertrophic –
G71.02
- due to nerve lesion –
- musculocutaneous nerve –
G56.9-(header) - musculospiral –
G56.9-(header) - nerve – see also Disorder, nerve
- abducent – see Strabismus, paralytic, sixth nerve
- accessory –
G52.8 - auditory (except Deafness)
- birth injury –
P14.9 - cranial or cerebral –
G52.9 - facial –
G51.0 - fourth or trochlear – see Strabismus, paralytic, fourth nerve
- newborn (birth injury) –
P14.9 - oculomotor – see Strabismus, paralytic, third nerve
- phrenic (birth injury) –
P14.2 - radial –
G56.3-(header) - seventh or facial –
G51.0- newborn (birth injury) –
P11.3
- newborn (birth injury) –
- sixth or abducent – see Strabismus, paralytic, sixth nerve
- syphilitic –
A52.15 - third or oculomotor – see Strabismus, paralytic, third nerve
- trigeminal –
G50.9 - trochlear – see Strabismus, paralytic, fourth nerve
- ulnar –
G56.2-(header)
- normokalemic periodic –
G72.3 - ocular –
H49.9- alternating –
G83.89
- alternating –
- oculofacial, congenital (Moebius) –
Q87.0 - oculomotor (external bilateral) (nerve) – see Strabismus, paralytic, third nerve
- palate (soft) –
K13.79 - paratrigeminal –
G50.9 - periodic (familial) (hyperkalemic) (hypokalemic) (myotonic) (normokalemic) (potassium sensitive) (secondary) –
G72.3 - peripheral autonomic nervous system – see Neuropathy, peripheral, autonomic
- peroneal (nerve) –
G57.3-(header) - pharynx –
J39.2 - phrenic nerve –
G56.8-(header) - plantar nerve (s) –
G57.6-(header) - pneumogastric nerve –
G52.2 - poliomyelitis (current) – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- popliteal nerve –
G57.3-(header) - postepileptic transitory –
G83.84 - progressive (atrophic) (bulbar) (spinal) –
G12.22- general –
A52.17 - infantile acute – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- supranuclear –
G23.1
- general –
- pseudobulbar –
G12.29 - pseudohypertrophic (muscle) –
G71.09– see also Dystrophy, muscular, by type, if applicable - psychogenic –
F44.4 - quadriceps –
G57.9-(header) - quadriplegic – see Tetraplegia
- radial nerve –
G56.3-(header) - rectus muscle (eye) –
H49.9 - recurrent isolated sleep –
G47.53 - respiratory (muscle) (system) (tract) –
R06.81 - right side – see Hemiplegia
- saturnine
- sciatic nerve –
G57.0-(header) - senile –
G83.9 - shaking – see Parkinsonism
- shoulder –
G56.9-(header) - sleep, recurrent isolated –
G47.53 - spastic –
G83.9- cerebral – see Palsy, cerebral, spastic
- congenital (cerebral) – see Palsy, cerebral, spastic
- familial –
G11.4 - hereditary –
G11.4 - quadriplegic –
G80.0 - syphilitic (spinal) –
A52.17
- sphincter, bladder – see Paralysis, bladder
- spinal (cord) –
G83.9- accessory nerve –
G52.8 - acute – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- ascending acute –
G61.0 - atrophic (acute) – see also Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- spastic, syphilitic –
A52.17
- spastic, syphilitic –
- congenital NEC – see Palsy, cerebral
- infantile – see Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- hereditary –
G95.89 - progressive –
G12.21- muscle –
G12.25
- muscle –
- sequelae NEC –
G83.89
- accessory nerve –
- sternomastoid –
G52.8 - stomach –
K31.84- diabetic – see Diabetes, by type, with gastroparesis
- nerve –
G52.2- diabetic – see Diabetes, by type, with gastroparesis
- stroke – see Infarct, brain
- subscapularis –
G56.8-(header) - supranuclear (progressive) –
G23.1 - sympathetic –
G90.89- cervical –
G90.09 - nervous system – see Neuropathy, peripheral, autonomic
- cervical –
- syndrome –
G83.9- specified NEC –
G83.89
- specified NEC –
- syphilitic spastic spinal (Erb's) –
A52.17 - thigh –
G57.9-(header) - throat –
J39.2 - thrombotic (current episode) –
I63.3-(header) - thumb –
G56.9-(header) - tick – see Toxicity, venom, arthropod, specified NEC
- Todd's (postepileptic transitory paralysis) –
G83.84 - toe –
G57.6-(header) - tongue –
K14.8 - transient –
R29.5- arm or leg NEC –
R29.818 - traumatic NEC – see Injury, nerve
- arm or leg NEC –
- trapezius –
G52.8 - traumatic, transient NEC – see Injury, nerve
- trembling – see Parkinsonism
- triceps brachii –
G56.9-(header) - trigeminal nerve –
G50.9 - trochlear (nerve) – see Strabismus, paralytic, fourth nerve
- ulnar nerve –
G56.2-(header) - upper limb – see Monoplegia, upper limb
- uremic –
N18.9–G99.8[manifestation] - uveoparotitic –
D86.89 - uvula –
K13.79- postdiphtheritic –
A36.0
- postdiphtheritic –
- vagus nerve –
G52.2 - vasomotor NEC –
G90.89 - velum palati –
K13.79 - vesical – see Paralysis, bladder
- vestibular nerve (except Vertigo)
- vocal cords –
J38.00 - Volkmann's (complicating trauma) –
T79.6(header) - wasting –
G12.29 - Weber's –
G46.3 - wrist –
G56.9-(header)
How to choose the right code
Start with the main term, then pick the indented subterm that matches the documentation (type, cause, site, laterality, episode of care). Always confirm the code in the tabular list: follow its Excludes1/Excludes2, “code first” and “use additional code” notes, and add a 7th character where required.
Source: CDC/NCHS ICD-10-CM FY2027 alphabetic index.