I60.5 — Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from vertebral artery
I60.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from vertebral artery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above I60.5
These are not written on I60.5, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing I60.5 with anything listed here is a denial.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I60.5
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of I60.5, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Risk adjustment
I60.5 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.
Code history
I60.5 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead I60.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I60. If I60.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I60.0Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from carotid siphon and bifurcation
- I60.1Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from middle cerebral artery
- I60.2Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from anterior communicating artery
- I60.3Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from posterior communicating artery
- I60.4Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from basilar artery
- I60.6Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from other intracranial arteries
- I60.7Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from unspecified intracranial artery
- I60.8Other nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I60.9Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, unspecified
Questions about I60.5
- Is I60.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I60.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I60.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).
- What cannot be coded together with I60.5?
- I60.5 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 I60.5 (I60) and apply to it just the same.