B69.0 — Cysticercosis of central nervous system
B69.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for cysticercosis of central nervous system. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with B69.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at B69.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading B69.0 alone.
- G99.8Other specified disorders of nervous system in diseases classified elsewhere
Risk adjustment
B69.0 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
B69.0 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How B69.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to B69.0.
- Neurocysticercosis
- Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis›brain
- Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis›central nervous system
- Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis›cerebral
- Epilepsy, epileptic, epilepsia›cysticercosis
- Cysticercosis, cysticerciasis›with›epileptiform fits
Related codes at this level
Codes that share B69. If B69.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about B69.0
- Is B69.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. B69.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does B69.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Helminthiases (B65-B83).