G44.8
Other specified headache syndromes
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
G44.8 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for other specified headache syndromes. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are G44.81 Hypnic headache, G44.82 Headache associated with sexual activity, G44.83 Primary cough headache, G44.84 Primary exertional headache and 3 more. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry and 13 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
This code
- headache with orthostatic or positional component, not elsewhere classified (R51.0)
Inherited from G44 Other headache syndromes
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 6 Diseases of the nervous system
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)