G93.4
Other and unspecified encephalopathy
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 9 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 12 never code together
G93.4code
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
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes
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Alongside this code 9 same parent — G93
G93.0 Cerebral cysts G93.1 Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified G93.2 Benign intracranial hypertension G93.3 Postviral and related fatigue syndromes category G93.5 Compression of brain G93.6 Cerebral edema G93.7 Reye's syndrome G93.8 Other specified disorders of brain category G93.9 Disorder of brain, unspecified
Subordinate codes 7
G93.40 Encephalopathy, unspecified G93.41 Metabolic encephalopathy G93.42 Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts G93.43 Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts G93.44 Adult-onset leukodystrophy with axonal spheroids G93.45 Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy G93.49 Other encephalopathy
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