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F19.97

F19.97Other psychoactive substance use, unspecified with psychoactive substance-induced persisting dementia

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F19.97 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other psychoactive substance use, unspecified with psychoactive substance-induced persisting dementia. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

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

  • Other (or unknown) substance-induced major neurocognitive disorder, without use disorder

Risk adjustment

F19.97 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:

  • HCC 135 Drug Use with Psychotic Complications0.424 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

F19.97 is named in 13 Medicare coverage policies 12 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
  • A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
  • A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care
  • A56767Billing and Coding: Heavy Metal Testing

How F19.97 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 F19.97.

  • Substance-inducedmajor neurocognitive disorder
  • Dementiainpsychoactive drug
  • Disordercognitivepersistingdue tospecified substance NEC
  • Usepsychoactive drug NECwithpersistingdementia

Related codes at this level

Codes that share F19.9. If F19.97 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about F19.97

Is F19.97 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. F19.97 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does F19.97 sit in the tabular list?
Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use (F10-F19).
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.