I69.81 — Cognitive deficits following other cerebrovascular disease
I69.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cognitive deficits following other cerebrovascular disease. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with I69.81
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at I69.81. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading I69.81 alone.
Risk adjustment
I69.81 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 I69.81 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 I69.81.
- Sequelae›disease›cerebrovascular›specified type NEC›cognitive deficits
Code to one of these instead I69.81
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- I69.810Attention and concentration deficit following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.811Memory deficit following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.812Visuospatial deficit and spatial neglect following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.813Psychomotor deficit following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.814Frontal lobe and executive function deficit following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.815Cognitive social or emotional deficit following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.818Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.819Unspecified symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions following other cerebrovascular disease
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.8. If I69.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I69.80Unspecified sequelae of other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.82Speech and language deficits following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.83Monoplegia of upper limb following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.84Monoplegia of lower limb following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.85Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.86Other paralytic syndrome following other cerebrovascular disease
- I69.89Other sequelae of other cerebrovascular disease
Questions about I69.81
- Is I69.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I69.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I69.81 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).