G47.5

Clinical Information

• A group of sleep disorders causing disruption of sleep. Representative examples include nightmare disorders, sleep terror disorders, sleepwalking, and restless leg syndrome.

• An abnormal disruption of sleep, such as sleep walking, sleep talking, nightmares, bedwetting, sleep apnea problems with breathing that cause loud snoring), or nighttime seizures.

• Movements or behaviors associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals from sleep that may impair sleep maintenance. Parasomnias are generally divided into four groups: arousal disorders, sleep-wake transition disorders, parasomnias of rem sleep, and nonspecific parasomnias. from thorpy, sleep disorders medicine, 1994, p191)

Details

• G47.5 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM G47.5 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of G47.5 – other international versions of ICD-10 G47.5 may differ.