F01.A0

F01.A0: Vascular dementia, mild, without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F01.A0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for vascular dementia, mild, without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Major neurocognitive disorder due to vascular disease, mild, NOS
Vascular dementia, mild, NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above F01.A0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on F01.A: Vascular dementia, mild

mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition with or without behavioral disturbance (F06.7-)

Other codes that can never be billed with F01.A0

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

F06.7Mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition
G31.84Mild cognitive impairment of uncertain or unknown etiology

Risk adjustment

F01.A0 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:

HCC 127 Dementia, Mild or Unspecified0.341 RAF

Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.

Medicare coverage

F01.A0 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies: 14 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
A56621Billing and Coding: Swallowing Studies for Dysphagia