G71.09 Other specified muscular dystrophies

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Benign scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy with early contractures [Emery-Dreifuss]
• Congenital muscular dystrophy NOS
• Congenital muscular dystrophy with specific morphological abnormalities of the muscle fiber
• Distal muscular dystrophy
• Ocular muscular dystrophy
• Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
• Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy

Applies from G71 Primary disorders of muscles

Excludes2 (not included here)

• arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (Q74.3)
• metabolic disorders (E70-E88)
• myositis (M60.-)

Risk adjustment (HCC)

• CMS-HCC V28: HCC 197 — Muscular Dystrophy
• CMS-HCC V22: HCC 76 — Muscular Dystrophy
• ESRD V24: HCC 76

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 091-093 in MDC 01.

Code annotations containing back-references to G71.09

Back-references to G71.0

• Code First: Z99.3 Dependence on wheelchair ("muscular dystrophy (G71.0-)")

Back-references to G71

• Code First: M62.84 Sarcopenia ("primary disorders of muscles (G71.-)")

Diagnosis Index entries for G71.09

• Cardiomyopathy (familial) (idiopathic) › due to › progressive muscular dystrophy
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › benign (Becker type) › scapuloperoneal with early contractures [Emery-Dreifuss]
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › congenital (hereditary) (progressive) (with specific morphological abnormalities of the muscle fiber)
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › distal
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › Emery-Dreifuss
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › hereditary (progressive)
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › progressive (hereditary)
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › scapuloperoneal
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › muscular › specified type NEC
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › ocular
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › oculopharyngeal
• Dystrophy, dystrophia › scapuloperoneal
• Hypertrophy, hypertrophic › pseudomuscular
• Myocardiopathy (congestive) (constrictive) (familial) (hypertrophic nonobstructive) (idiopathic) (infiltrative) (obstructive) (primary) (restrictive) (sporadic) › in (due to) › progressive muscular dystrophy
• Myopathy › distal
• Myopathy › ocular
• Myopathy › oculopharyngeal
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › pseudohypertrophic (muscle)
• Paresis › pseudohypertrophic
• Pseudohypertrophy, muscle
• Syndrome › scapuloperoneal

Nearby codes

• G71.0349 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to other sarcoglycan dysfunction
• G71.035 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to anoctamin-5 dysfunction
• G71.036 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to fukutin related protein dysfunction
• G71.038 Other limb girdle muscular dystrophy
• G71.039 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy, unspecified
• G71.09 Other specified muscular dystrophies (this code)
• G71.1 Myotonic disorders
• G71.11 Myotonic muscular dystrophy
• G71.12 Myotonia congenita
• G71.13 Myotonic chondrodystrophy
• G71.14 Drug induced myotonia