G61.0
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
G60-G65block
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 2
G61.0code
Inclusion terms
- Acute (post-)infective polyneuritis
- Miller Fisher Syndrome
Index entries leading here 16
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic — see also Polyneuropathy
- Sclerosis, sclerotic
- Neuromyelitis G36.9
- ascending G61.0
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- Ophthalmoplegia — see also Strabismus, paralytic
- ataxia-areflexia G61.0
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Barré-Guillain disease or syndrome G61.0
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Encephalomyeloradiculitis (acute) G61.0
- Encephalomyeloradiculoneuritis (acute) (Guillain-Barré) G61.0
- Guillain-Barré disease or syndrome G61.0
- Neuritis (rheumatoid) M79.2
- Landry-Guillain-Barré, syndrome or paralysis G61.0
- Landry's disease or paralysis G61.0
- Miller Fisher syndrome G61.0
- Polyradiculoneuropathy (acute) (postinfective) (segmentally demyelinating) G61.0
Alongside this code 3 same parent — G61
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.