I69.821 — Dysphasia following other cerebrovascular disease
I69.821 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for dysphasia following other cerebrovascular disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
I69.821 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
I69.821 is named in 8 Medicare coverage policies — 8 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52866Billing and Coding: Speech-Language Pathology
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology
How I69.821 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 I69.821.
- Dysphasia›following›cerebrovascular disease›specified disease NEC
- Sequelae›disease›cerebrovascular›specified type NEC›dysphasia
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.82. If I69.821 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about I69.821
- Is I69.821 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. I69.821 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does I69.821 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).