R41.844 — Frontal lobe and executive function deficit
R41.844 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for frontal lobe and executive function deficit. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
R41.844 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
R41.844 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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How R41.844 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 R41.844.
- Deficit›executive function
- Deficit›frontal lobe
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R41.84. If R41.844 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R41.844
- Is R41.844 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R41.844 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R41.844 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46).