G43.901 ICD-10-CM Code: Migraine, unspecified, not intractable, with status migrainosus
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.
- MS-DRG 102 — HEADACHES WITH MCC (MDC 01)
- MS-DRG 103 — HEADACHES WITHOUT MCC (MDC 01)
A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for G43.901 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Inclusion Terms
Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.
- Status migrainosus NOS
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- lower half migraine (G44.00)
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- headache NOS (R51.9)
- headache syndromes (G44.-)
Use Additional Code
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
- Use additional code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to G43.901 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G43.83 — Menstrual migraine, intractable
- G43.831 — Menstrual migraine, intractable, with status migrainosus
- G43.839 — Menstrual migraine, intractable, without status migrainosus
- G43.9 — Migraine, unspecified
- G43.90 — Migraine, unspecified, not intractable
- G43.909 — Migraine, unspecified, not intractable, without status migrainosus
- G43.91 — Migraine, unspecified, intractable
- G43.911 — Migraine, unspecified, intractable, with status migrainosus
- G43.919 — Migraine, unspecified, intractable, without status migrainosus
- G43.A — Cyclical vomiting
Indexed Clinical Terms (2)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Migraine (idiopathic), not intractable, with status migrainosus
- Migraine (idiopathic), without refractory migraine, with status migrainosus