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F02.C11

F02.C11: Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with agitation

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F02.C11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with agitation. 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.

  • Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with aberrant motor behavior such as restlessness, rocking, pacing, or exit-seeking
  • Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with verbal or physical behaviors such as profanity, shouting, threatening, anger, aggression, combativeness, or violence
  • Major neurocognitive disorder in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with aberrant motor behavior such as restlessness, rocking, pacing, or exit-seeking
  • Major neurocognitive disorder in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with verbal or physical behaviors such as profanity, shouting, threatening, anger, aggression, combativeness, or violence

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above F02.C11

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on F02: Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere

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

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F02.C11

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on F02: Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere

  • dementia in alcohol and psychoactive substance disorders (F10-F19, with .17, .27, .97)
  • vascular dementia (F01.5-, F01.A-, F01.B-, F01.C-)

Other codes that can never be billed with F02.C11

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

F02.C11 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. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.

Medicare coverage

F02.C11 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies: 11 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
  • A56865Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Dementia›in›diseases specified elsewhere›severe›with›aberrant motor behavior(exit-seeking) (pacing) (restlessness) (rocking)
  • Dementia›in›diseases specified elsewhere›severe›with›agitation
  • Dementia›in›diseases specified elsewhere›severe›with›verbal or physical behaviors(anger) (aggression) (combativeness) (profanity) (shouting) (threatening) (violence)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under F02.C1

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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