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.

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

Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania, not intractable is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (G44.039).

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for G44.039 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to G44.039 in its code family, with their registry titles.

G44.02 — Chronic cluster headache
G44.021 — Chronic cluster headache, intractable
G44.029 — Chronic cluster headache, not intractable
G44.03 — Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania
G44.031 — Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania, intractable
G44.04 — Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania
G44.041 — Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, intractable
G44.049 — Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, not intractable
G44.05 — Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT)
G44.051 — Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT), intractable

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.