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G93.82 ICD-10-CM Code: Brain death

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

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 080 — NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA WITH MCC (MDC 01)
  • MS-DRG 081 — NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA 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 Overview

Brain death is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (G93.82).

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

  • MCC 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: MCC — Major 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 718 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 080 (MDC 01), DRG 081 (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):NVS020 — Other nervous system disorders (neither hereditary nor degenerative) (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 category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Other nervous system disorders (neither hereditary nor degenerative)).

G93.31 — Postviral fatigue syndrome, G93.32 — Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, G93.39 — Other post infection and related fatigue syndromes, G93.40 — Encephalopathy, unspecified, G93.41 — Metabolic encephalopathy, G93.49 — Other encephalopathy, G93.5 — Compression of brain, G93.6 — Cerebral edema, G93.7 — Reye's syndrome, G93.81 — Temporal sclerosis, G93.89 — Other specified disorders of brain, G93.9 — Disorder of brain, unspecified, G94 — Other disorders of brain in diseases classified elsewhere, G95.0 — Syringomyelia and syringobulbia, G95.11 — Acute infarction of spinal cord (embolic) (nonembolic), G95.19 — Other vascular myelopathies, G95.20 — Unspecified cord compression, G95.29 — Other cord compression, G95.81 — Conus medullaris syndrome, G95.89 — Other specified diseases of spinal cord, +97 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

R99 — Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality, Z63.4 — Disappearance and death of family member (family member), Z82.41 — Family history of sudden cardiac death (cardiac, family history of), Z86.74 — Personal history of sudden cardiac arrest (cardiac, personal history of)

Contextual Map

Every relationship of G93.82 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)

MS-DRG Grouper

  • MCC — Major Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (MCC).”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix C) · FY2026
  • DRG 080 — NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA WITH MCC[MS-DRG]: “NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA WITH MCC (MDC 01)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026
  • DRG 081 — NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA WITHOUT MCC[MS-DRG]: “NONTRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA WITHOUT 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

  • Brain, death[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Death (cause unknown) (of) (unexplained) (unspecified cause), brain[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (23)

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
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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Cite this page

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

MedCoder.ai. "G93.82 — Brain death." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/g93.82-brain-death

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Brain death

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 G93.82 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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