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G83.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Diplegia of upper limbs

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
3 inclusion terms
Risk adjustment
CMS-HCC V28: 1 category · CMS-HCC V22 category 104

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 052 — SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITH CC/MCC (MDC 01)
  • MS-DRG 053 — SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITHOUT CC/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.

Risk Adjustment (CMS-HCC)

Payment categories this diagnosis maps to under CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2026.

  • HCC 254 — Monoplegia, Other Paralytic Syndromes

Other models: CMS-HCC V22 HCC 104

Risk scores depend on the enrollee's full accepted diagnosis set and segment; a category mapping alone does not determine payment.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for G83.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on G83.0 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • paralysis (complete) (incomplete), except as in G80-G82

Source: inherited from G83

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Diplegia (upper)
  • Paralysis of both upper limbs

Code Overview

Diplegia of upper limbs is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (G83.0).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (2)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2026). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: CC — Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 17 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 052 (MDC 01), DRG 053 (MDC 01).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):NVS008 — Paralysis (other than cerebral palsy) (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical process (MS-DRG)

Acts as CC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

G82.50 — Quadriplegia, unspecified, G82.51 — Quadriplegia, C1-C4 complete, G82.52 — Quadriplegia, C1-C4 incomplete, G82.53 — Quadriplegia, C5-C7 complete, G82.54 — Quadriplegia, C5-C7 incomplete, G83.5 — Locked-in state, G83.81 — Brown-Séquard syndrome, G83.82 — Anterior cord syndrome, G83.83 — Posterior cord syndrome, G83.84 — Todd's paralysis (postepileptic), G83.89 — Other specified paralytic syndromes, G83.9 — Paralytic syndrome, unspecified, G96.9 — Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified, G98.0 — Neurogenic arthritis, not elsewhere classified, G98.8 — Other disorders of nervous system, R53.2 — Functional quadriplegia

Same CMS-HCC risk category (V28)

CMS maps these diagnoses to the same Hierarchical Condition Category (Monoplegia, Other Paralytic Syndromes) for risk-adjusted payment.

G83.10 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting unspecified side, G83.11 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting right dominant side, G83.12 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting left dominant side, G83.13 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting right nondominant side, G83.14 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting left nondominant side, G83.20 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting unspecified side, G83.21 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting right dominant side, G83.22 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting left dominant side, G83.23 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting right nondominant side, G83.24 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting left nondominant side, G83.30 — Monoplegia, unspecified affecting unspecified side, G83.31 — Monoplegia, unspecified affecting right dominant side, G83.32 — Monoplegia, unspecified affecting left dominant side, G83.33 — Monoplegia, unspecified affecting right nondominant side, G83.34 — Monoplegia, unspecified affecting left nondominant side, G83.5 — Locked-in state, G83.81 — Brown-Séquard syndrome, G83.82 — Anterior cord syndrome, G83.83 — Posterior cord syndrome, G83.84 — Todd's paralysis (postepileptic), +98 more

Related risk categories

These categories interact through CMS's HCC hierarchy — one can suppress the other's risk-adjustment weight when both are present on a claim.

Quadriplegia, Paraplegia, Hemiplegia/Hemiparesis

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Paralysis (other than cerebral palsy)).

G81.93 — Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting right nondominant side, G81.94 — Hemiplegia, unspecified affecting left nondominant side, G82.20 — Paraplegia, unspecified, G82.21 — Paraplegia, complete, G82.22 — Paraplegia, incomplete, G82.50 — Quadriplegia, unspecified, G82.51 — Quadriplegia, C1-C4 complete, G82.52 — Quadriplegia, C1-C4 incomplete, G82.53 — Quadriplegia, C5-C7 complete, G82.54 — Quadriplegia, C5-C7 incomplete, G83.10 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting unspecified side, G83.11 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting right dominant side, G83.12 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting left dominant side, G83.13 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting right nondominant side, G83.14 — Monoplegia of lower limb affecting left nondominant side, G83.20 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting unspecified side, G83.21 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting right dominant side, G83.22 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting left dominant side, G83.23 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting right nondominant side, G83.24 — Monoplegia of upper limb affecting left nondominant side, +27 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Paralysis, paralytic”, “Diplegia”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

G71.01 — Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy (Duchenne's, due to or associated with, muscular dystrophy), G71.02 — Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (muscle, muscular NEC, pseudohypertrophic), G71.09 — Other specified muscular dystrophies (pseudohypertrophic), G72.3 — Periodic paralysis (familial), G72.89 — Other specified myopathies (muscle, muscular NEC), G80.0 — Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (spastic, quadriplegic), G80.1 — Spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (spastic), G80.8 — Other cerebral palsy (congenital), G80.9 — Cerebral palsy, unspecified (Clark's), G82.20 — Paraplegia, unspecified (lower limbs), G90.09 — Other idiopathic peripheral autonomic neuropathy (sympathetic, cervical), G90.89 — Other disorders of autonomic nervous system (sympathetic), G93.89 — Other specified disorders of brain (respiratory, center NEC), G95.89 — Other specified diseases of spinal cord (spinal, hereditary), H21.9 — Unspecified disorder of iris and ciliary body (muscle, muscular NEC, iris sphincter), H49.9 — Unspecified paralytic strabismus (ocular), H51.0 — Palsy (spasm) of conjugate gaze (gaze, conjugate), H51.8 — Other specified disorders of binocular movement (divergence), H57.09 — Other anomalies of pupillary function (iris), I50.9 — Heart failure, unspecified (cardiac), +81 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of G83.0 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

Clinical classification (CCSR)

Risk adjustment (CMS-HCC)

  • HCC 254 — Monoplegia, Other Paralytic Syndromes [CMS-HCC]— CMS-HCC V28 · 2026

MS-DRG Grouper

  • CC — Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (CC).”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix C) · FY2026
  • DRG 052 — SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITH CC/MCC[MS-DRG]: “SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITH CC/MCC (MDC 01)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026
  • DRG 053 — SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITHOUT CC/MCC[MS-DRG]: “SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 01)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026

MDC crossing

  • MDC 01 — Diseases and Disorders of the Nervous System[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Nervous System — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 8,892 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries

  • Diplegia (upper limbs)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete), brain, diplegia[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (28)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Risk adjustment Official source data
2026 Mid-Year Final ICD-10 Mappings + Model Software (cms.gov/files/zip/2026-midyear-final-icd-10-mappings.zip, 2026-midyear-final-model-software.zip) — CMS-HCC V28, PY2026 mid-year final release Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "G83.0 — Diplegia of upper limbs." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/g83.0-diplegia-of-upper-limbs

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Diplegia of upper limbs

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to G83.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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