Vascular dementia, unspecified severity

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 5 more specific codes instead:

F01.50 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety
F01.51 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, with behavioral disturbance (also a header)
F01.52 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, with psychotic disturbance
F01.53 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, with mood disturbance
F01.54 Vascular dementia, unspecified severity, with anxiety

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Vascular dementia
FY2023 Description revised ~~Vascular dementia~~ Vascular dementia, unspecified severity

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from F01 Vascular dementia

Code first

, if applicable, any causal condition

Includes

arteriosclerotic dementia
major neurocognitive disorder due to vascular disease
multi-infarct dementia

Also known as

Vascular dementia as a result of infarction of the brain due to vascular disease, including hypertensive cerebrovascular disease.

Inherited from the F01-F09 section Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions (F01-F09)

Note

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.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
F01.A	Vascular dementia, mild	Not billable
F01.B	Vascular dementia, moderate	Not billable
F01.C	Vascular dementia, severe	Not billable