G54.0
Brachial plexus disorders
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 23 never code together
G54code
Excludes1
- current traumatic nerve root and plexus disorders - see nerve injury by body region
- intervertebral disc disorders (M50-M51)M50-M51
- neuralgia or neuritis NOS (M79.2)M79.2
- neuritis or radiculitis brachial NOS (M54.13)M54.13
- neuritis or radiculitis lumbar NOS (M54.16)M54.16
- neuritis or radiculitis lumbosacral NOS (M54.17)M54.17
- neuritis or radiculitis thoracic NOS (M54.14)M54.14
- radiculitis NOS (M54.10)M54.10
- radiculopathy NOS (M54.10)M54.10
- spondylosis (M47.-)M47.-
G50-G59block
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
G54.0code
Inclusion terms
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
Index entries leading here 17
- Angiospasm (peripheral) (traumatic) (vessel) I73.9
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- Compression
- Irritation
- Pressure
- brachial plexus G54.0
- Degeneration, degenerative
- brachial plexus G54.0
- Lesion (s) (nontraumatic)
- brachial plexus G54.0
- Neuropathy, neuropathic G62.9
- brachial plexus G54.0
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- brachial plexus G54.0
- cervicothoracic outlet G54.0
- costoclavicular G54.0
- hyperabduction G54.0
- middle radicular G54.0
- Naffziger's G54.0
- thoracic outlet (compression) G54.0
- neurogenic G54.0
- outlet (thoracic) G54.0
- scalenus anticus (anterior) G54.0
- subcoracoid-pectoralis minor G54.0
- Wright's (hyperabduction) G54.0
- Vasospasm (vasoconstriction) I73.9
- nerve
- brachial plexus G54.0
- nerve
- Palsy G83.9
- brachial plexus NEC G54.0
- Naffziger's syndrome G54.0
- Thoracic — see also condition
- outlet syndrome G54.0
- Plexitis, brachial G54.0
- Scalenus anticus (anterior) syndrome G54.0
- Wright's syndrome G54.0
Alongside this code 9 same parent — G54
G54.1 Lumbosacral plexus disorders G54.2 Cervical root disorders, not elsewhere classified G54.3 Thoracic root disorders, not elsewhere classified G54.4 Lumbosacral root disorders, not elsewhere classified G54.5 Neuralgic amyotrophy G54.6 Phantom limb syndrome with pain G54.7 Phantom limb syndrome without pain G54.8 Other nerve root and plexus disorders G54.9 Nerve root and plexus disorder, unspecified
Additional references
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