I77.75 — Dissection of other precerebral arteries
I77.75 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for dissection of other precerebral arteries. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Dissection of basilar artery (trunk)
Risk adjustment
I77.75 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
I77.75 is named in 10 Medicare coverage policies — 10 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56631Billing and Coding: Thoracic Aortography and Carotid, Vertebral, and Subclavian Angiography
- A56722Billing and Coding: Intraoperative Neurophysiological Testing
How I77.75 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 I77.75.
- Dissection›artery›basilar(trunk)
- Dissection›artery›precerebral›specified site NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I77.7. If I77.75 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I77.70Dissection of unspecified artery
- I77.71Dissection of carotid artery
- I77.72Dissection of iliac artery
- I77.73Dissection of renal artery
- I77.74Dissection of vertebral artery
- I77.76Dissection of artery of upper extremity
- I77.77Dissection of artery of lower extremity
- I77.79Dissection of other specified artery
Questions about I77.75
- Is I77.75 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. I77.75 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does I77.75 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries (I70-I79).