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I63.54

Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of cerebellar artery

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • I63.541 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of right cerebellar artery
  • I63.542 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of left cerebellar artery
  • I63.543 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of bilateral cerebellar arteries
  • I63.549 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of unspecified cerebellar artery

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of cerebellar artery

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 I63 Cerebral infarction

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • neonatal cerebral infarction (P91.82-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • chronic, without residual deficits (sequelae) (Z86.73)
  • sequelae of cerebral infarction (I69.3-)

Use additional code

  • code, if applicable, to identify status post administration of tPA (rtPA) in a different facility within the last 24 hours prior to admission to current facility (Z92.82)
  • code, if known, to indicate National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7-)

Includes

  • occlusion and stenosis of cerebral and precerebral arteries, resulting in cerebral infarction

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.

Showing 40 of 80 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I63.50 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of unspecified cerebral artery Valid
I63.51 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of middle cerebral artery Not billable
I63.52 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of anterior cerebral artery Not billable
I63.53 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of posterior cerebral artery Not billable
I63.59 Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of other cerebral artery Valid