I69.218 — Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
I69.218 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
I69.218 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
I69.218 is named in 11 Medicare coverage policies — 11 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
How I69.218 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 I69.218.
- Deficit›cognitive NEC›following›nontraumatic›specified intracranial hemorrhage NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.21. If I69.218 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- I69.219Unspecified symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
Questions about I69.218
- Is I69.218 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. I69.218 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does I69.218 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).