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F01.C3

F01.C3Vascular dementia, severe, with mood disturbance

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F01.C3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for vascular dementia, severe, with mood disturbance. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

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

  • Major neurocognitive disorder due to vascular disease, severe, with mood disturbance such as depression, apathy, or anhedonia
  • Vascular dementia, severe, with mood disturbance such as depression, apathy, or anhedonia

Risk adjustment

F01.C3 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:

  • HCC 125 Dementia, Severe0.341 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.

Medicare coverage

F01.C3 is named in 14 Medicare coverage policies 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

  • 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
  • A56775Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Angiography

How F01.C3 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 F01.C3.

  • Dementiavascularseverewithmood disturbance(anhedonia) (apathy) (depression)

Related codes at this level

Codes that share F01.C. If F01.C3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about F01.C3

Is F01.C3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. F01.C3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does F01.C3 sit in the tabular list?
Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions (F01-F09).
ICD-10-CMFY2026-Apr· effective April 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release — see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.