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F02.81

Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with behavioral disturbance

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Billable FY2016 to FY2022, and a category header from FY2023.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • F02.811 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with agitation
  • F02.818 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with other behavioral disturbance

Use instead:

  • F02.82 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with psychotic disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.83 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with mood disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.84 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with anxiety stated for FY2022
  • F02.A11 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, mild, with agitation stated for FY2022
  • F02.A18 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, mild, with other behavioral disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.A2 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, mild, with psychotic disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.A3 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, mild, with mood disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.A4 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, mild, with anxiety stated for FY2022
  • F02.B11 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, moderate, with agitation stated for FY2022
  • F02.B18 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, moderate, with other behavioral disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.B2 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, moderate, with psychotic disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.B3 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, moderate, with mood disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.B4 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, moderate, with anxiety stated for FY2022
  • F02.C11 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with agitation stated for FY2022
  • F02.C18 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with other behavioral disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.C2 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with psychotic disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.C3 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with mood disturbance stated for FY2022
  • F02.C4 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, severe, with anxiety stated for FY2022

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, with behavioral disturbance
  2. FY2012 Draft description revised draft Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, with behavioral disturbance Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere with behavioral disturbance
  3. FY2023 Description revised Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere with behavioral disturbance Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with behavioral disturbance
  4. FY2023 Stopped being billable

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 F02 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition with or without behavioral disturbance (F06.7-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • dementia in alcohol and psychoactive substance disorders (F10-F19, with .17, .27, .97)
  • vascular dementia (F01.5-, F01.A-, F01.B-, F01.C-)

Code first

  • the underlying physiological condition, such as:
  • Alzheimer's (G30.-)
  • cerebral lipidosis (E75.4)
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.0-)
  • epilepsy and recurrent seizures (G40.-)
  • hepatolenticular degeneration (E83.01)
  • human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
  • Huntington's disease (G10)
  • hypercalcemia (E83.52)
  • hypothyroidism, acquired (E00-E03.-)
  • intoxications (T36-T65)
  • Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (A81.0-)
  • multiple sclerosis (G35-)
  • neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies (G31.83)
  • neurosyphilis (A52.17)
  • niacin deficiency [pellagra] (E52)
  • other frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder (G31.09)
  • Parkinson's disease (G20.-)
  • Pick's disease (G31.01)
  • polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0)
  • prion disease (A81.9)
  • systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-)
  • traumatic brain injury (S06.-)
  • trypanosomiasis (B56.-, B57.-)
  • vitamin B deficiency (E53.8)

Includes

  • Major neurocognitive disorder in other diseases classified elsewhere

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.

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Showing 40 of 97 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
F02.80 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety Valid
F02.82 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with psychotic disturbance Valid
F02.83 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with mood disturbance Valid
F02.84 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified severity, with anxiety Valid