I69.95
I69.95 — Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
I69.95 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified 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 I69.95
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at I69.95. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading I69.95 alone.
Risk adjustment
I69.95 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.
Code to one of these instead I69.95
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- I69.951Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease affecting right dominant side
- I69.952Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease affecting left dominant side
- I69.953Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease affecting right non-dominant side
- I69.954Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease affecting left non-dominant side
- I69.959Hemiplegia and hemiparesis following unspecified cerebrovascular disease affecting unspecified side
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I69.9. If I69.95 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I69.90Unspecified sequelae of unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.91Cognitive deficits following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.92Speech and language deficits following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.93Monoplegia of upper limb following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.94Monoplegia of lower limb following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.96Other paralytic syndrome following unspecified cerebrovascular disease
- I69.99Other sequelae of unspecified cerebrovascular disease
Questions about I69.95
- Is I69.95 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. I69.95 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does I69.95 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69).