ICD-10-CM · Chapter 6 · G00–G99
G11.6
Leukodystrophy with vanishing white matter disease
Diseases of the nervous system
Quick facts
- Code
- G11.6
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 6 — Diseases of the nervous system
- Category
- G11 — Hereditary ataxia
- Specificity
- 4 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM G11.6 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of leukodystrophy with vanishing white matter disease. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in G11
- G11Hereditary ataxia
- G11.0Congenital nonprogressive ataxia
- G11.1Early-onset cerebellar ataxia
- G11.10Early-onset cerebellar ataxia, unspecified
- G11.11Friedreich ataxia
- G11.19Other early-onset cerebellar ataxia
- G11.2Late-onset cerebellar ataxia
- G11.3Cerebellar ataxia with defective DNA repair
- G11.4Hereditary spastic paraplegia
- G11.5Hypomyelination - hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - hypodontia
- G11.8Other hereditary ataxias
- G11.9Hereditary ataxia, unspecified
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