I69.21 — Cognitive deficits following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
I69.21 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cognitive deficits following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with I69.21
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at I69.21. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading I69.21 alone.
Risk adjustment
I69.21 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.
How I69.21 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 I69.21.
- Sequelae›hemorrhage›intracranial, nontraumatic NEC›cognitive deficits
Code to one of these instead I69.21
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- I69.210Attention and concentration deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.211Memory deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.212Visuospatial deficit and spatial neglect following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.213Psychomotor deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.214Frontal lobe and executive function deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.215Cognitive social or emotional deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.218Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.219Unspecified symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.2. If I69.21 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I69.20Unspecified sequelae of other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.22Speech and language deficits following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.23Monoplegia of upper limb following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.24Monoplegia of lower limb following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.25Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.26Other paralytic syndrome following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
- I69.29Other sequelae of other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
Questions about I69.21
- Is I69.21 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I69.21 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I69.21 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).