I63.31
I63.31 — Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of middle cerebral artery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
I63.31 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of middle cerebral artery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
I63.31 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 to one of these instead I63.31
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- I63.311Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of right middle cerebral artery
- I63.312Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of left middle cerebral artery
- I63.313Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of bilateral middle cerebral arteries
- I63.319Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of unspecified middle cerebral artery
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I63.3. If I63.31 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I63.30Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of unspecified cerebral artery
- I63.32Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of anterior cerebral artery
- I63.33Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of posterior cerebral artery
- I63.34Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of cerebellar artery
- I63.39Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of other cerebral artery
Questions about I63.31
- Is I63.31 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I63.31 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I63.31 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).