Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM
F01.51 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, with behavioral disturbance
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Instructional notes
Chapter 5
Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
Includes
- disorders of psychological development
Section F01-F09
Notes
- This block comprises a range of mental disorders grouped together on the basis of their having in common a demonstrable etiology in cerebral disease, brain injury, or other insult leading to cerebral dysfunction. The dysfunction may be primary, as in diseases, injuries, and insults that affect the brain directly and selectively; or secondary, as in systemic diseases and disorders that attack the brain only as one of the multiple organs or systems of the body that are involved.
F01
Code firstSequence the underlying condition first.
- , if applicable, any causal condition
Includes
- arteriosclerotic dementia
- major neurocognitive disorder due to vascular disease
- multi-infarct dementia
Inclusion terms
- Vascular dementia as a result of infarction of the brain due to vascular disease, including hypertensive cerebrovascular disease.
Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders · F01-F09 Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions (F01-F09)
Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.
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