I69.00 — Unspecified sequelae of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
I69.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified sequelae of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
I69.00 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.
Medicare coverage
I69.00 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
- A57130Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Codes
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How I69.00 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 I69.00.
- Sequelae›hemorrhage›subarachnoid
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.0. If I69.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I69.01Cognitive deficits following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.02Speech and language deficits following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.03Monoplegia of upper limb following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.04Monoplegia of lower limb following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.05Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.06Other paralytic syndrome following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- I69.09Other sequelae of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
Questions about I69.00
- Is I69.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. I69.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does I69.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).