G71.0
Muscular dystrophy
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
G71.0 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for muscular dystrophy. 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 G71.00 Muscular dystrophy, unspecified; G71.01 Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy; G71.02 Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; G71.03 Limb girdle muscular dystrophies and 1 more. Its coding notes include 11 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Inherited from G71 Primary disorders of muscles
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)