I63.54
I63.54 — Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of cerebellar artery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
I63.54 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of cerebellar artery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
I63.54 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 I63.54
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- I63.541Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of right cerebellar artery
- I63.542Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of left cerebellar artery
- I63.543Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of bilateral cerebellar arteries
- I63.549Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of unspecified cerebellar artery
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I63.5. If I63.54 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I63.50Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of unspecified cerebral artery
- I63.51Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of middle cerebral artery
- I63.52Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of anterior cerebral artery
- I63.53Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of posterior cerebral artery
- I63.59Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of other cerebral artery
Questions about I63.54
- Is I63.54 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I63.54 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I63.54 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).