I67.3

I67.3: Progressive vascular leukoencephalopathy

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

I67.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for progressive vascular leukoencephalopathy. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

Binswanger's disease

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above I67.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on I67: Other cerebrovascular diseases

Occlusion and stenosis of cerebral artery causing cerebral infarction (I63.3-I63.5-)
Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral artery causing cerebral infarction (I63.2-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I67.3

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on I67: Other cerebrovascular diseases

sequelae of the listed conditions (I69.8)

Risk adjustment

I67.3 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:

HCC 127 Dementia, Mild or Unspecified0.341 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. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.

Medicare coverage

I67.3 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies: 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
A57206Billing and Coding: Lumbar MRI

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Binswanger's disease
Leukoencephalopathy›Binswanger's
Leukoencephalopathy›vascular, progressive

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.