AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2022 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes
Dementia: Stage of Severity, Behavioral and Physical Symptoms
New subcategories have been created with new codes under categories F01, Vascular Dementia, F02, Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, and F03, Unspecified Dementia.Vascular dementia (F01.511-F01.C4) Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (F02.811-F02.C4) Unspecified dementia (F03.911-F03.C4) Sixty-nine new codes have been created under these categories to recognize the stages of severity and to identify the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Dementia is a progressive disease, now also regularly referred to as major neurocognitive disorder. Dementia is characterized by a significant decline in cognitive function in the areas of memory...
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