What ICD-10 codes are used for seizures?
Seizures have diverse manifestations and underlying causes. Here are some of the leading variety of seizure ICD codes for accurate diagnosis, including epileptic seizures-related codes:
- R56.1 - Post traumatic seizures: This is used when the patient is confirmed to post-traumatic seizures.
- G40.89 - Other seizures: This is used when the patient has a type of seizure that doesn't have a specific ICD 10 code.
- G40.909 - Epilepsy, unspecified, not intractable, without status epilepticus: This is used for generalized epileptic conditions that are not specified further, and they are not intractable (not drug-resistant), and without status epilepticus (prolonged seizures or repeated seizures without regaining consciousness).
- G40.901 - Epilepsy, unspecified, not intractable, with status epilepticus: Same as above but with status epilepticus this time.
- G40.821 - Epileptic spasms, not intractable, with status epilepticus: This is used when a patient experiences treatable (not intractable) epileptic spasms that occur with status epilepticus, a prolonged or repeated seizure state.
- G40.823 - Epileptic spasms, intractable, with status epilepticus: G40.823 is used when a patient has hard-to-control (intractable) epileptic spasms that occur with status epilepticus requiring more intensive or resistant treatment.
- R56.9 - Unspecified convulsions: Convulsions can occur during seizures. This code covers instances of convulsions that do not have a specified cause or type.
- G40.311 - Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, intractable, with status epilepticus: This is for generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, meaning the cause is unknown.
- G40.211 - Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures, intractable, with status epilepticus: This is for epilepsy that occurs only in a certain part of the brain.