AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2016 Issue 4; ICD-10-CM NEW/REVISED CODES

Cognitive Sequelae of Cerebrovascular Diseases

At the request of the American Academy of Neurology, 48 new codes have been created at category I69, Sequelae of cerebrovascular diseases, to differentiate cognitive sequelae similar to the detail available for motor deficits and speech and language deficits. These new codes describe cognitive deficits following cerebrovascular disease, such as attention and concentration deficit; memory deficit; visuospatial deficit; psychomotor deficit; frontal lobe and executive function deficit; and cognitive social or emotional deficit. The codes have been created for nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, as well as other cerebrovascular diseases and unspecified cerebrovascular...

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