F06.71 — Mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition with behavioral disturbance
F06.71 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition with behavioral disturbance. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above F06.71
These are not written on F06.71, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing F06.71 with anything listed here is a denial.
Written on F06.7 — Mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition
- age related cognitive decline (R41.81)
- altered mental status (R41.82)
- cerebral degeneration (G31.9)
- change in mental status (R41.82)
- cognitive deficits following (sequelae of) cerebral hemorrhage or infarction (I69.01-I69.11-, I69.21-I69.31-, I69.81- I69.91-)
- dementia (F01.-, F02.-, F03.-)
- mild cognitive impairment due to unknown or unspecified etiology (G31.84)
- neurologic neglect syndrome (R41.4)
- personality change, nonpsychotic (F68.8)
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F06.71
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of F06.71, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Risk adjustment
F06.71 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
F06.71 is named in 7 Medicare coverage policies — 6 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
- A56614Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization
- A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care
- A56937Billing and Coding: Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How F06.71 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 F06.71.
- Disorder›mild neurocognitive›due to known physiological condition›with behavioral disturbance
- Impaired, impairment›mild neurocognitive›due to known physiological condition›with behavioral disturbance
Code history
F06.71 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F06.7. If F06.71 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F06.71
- Is F06.71 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F06.71 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F06.71 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions (F01-F09).
- What cannot be coded together with F06.71?
- F06.71 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above F06.71 (F06.7, F06) and apply to it just the same.