ICD-10-CM · Chapter 6 · G00–G99
G72.2
Myopathy due to other toxic agents
Diseases of the nervous system
Quick facts
- Code
- G72.2
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 6 — Diseases of the nervous system
- Category
- G72 — Other and unspecified myopathies
- Specificity
- 4 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM G72.2 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of myopathy due to other toxic agents. 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 G72
- G72Other and unspecified myopathies
- G72.0Drug-induced myopathy
- G72.1Alcoholic myopathy
- G72.3Periodic paralysis
- G72.4Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified
- G72.41Inclusion body myositis [IBM]
- G72.49Other inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified
- G72.8Other specified myopathies
- G72.81Critical illness myopathy
- G72.89Other specified myopathies
- G72.9Myopathy, unspecified
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