ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I60-I69 › I61 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage › I61.6

I61.6

Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, multiple localized

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, multiple localized

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 I61 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage

Excludes2 - not included here

  • sequelae of intracerebral hemorrhage (I69.1-)

Use additional code

  • code, if known, to indicate National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7-)

Inherited from the I60-I69 section Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)

Use additional code

  • code to identify presence of:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • hypertension (I10-I1A)
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I61.0 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in hemisphere, subcortical Valid
I61.1 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in hemisphere, cortical Valid
I61.2 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in hemisphere, unspecified Valid
I61.3 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in brain stem Valid
I61.4 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in cerebellum Valid
I61.5 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, intraventricular Valid
I61.8 Other nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage Valid
I61.9 Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, unspecified Valid