ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I60-I69 › I66 Occlusion and stenosis of cerebral... › I66.0
Occlusion and stenosis of middle cerebral 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.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
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 Occlusion and stenosis of middle cerebral 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 I66 Occlusion and stenosis of cerebral arteries, not resulting in cerebral infarction
Excludes1 - never coded here
- Occlusion and stenosis of cerebral artery causing cerebral infarction (I63.3-I63.5)
Includes
- embolism of cerebral artery
- narrowing of cerebral artery
- obstruction (complete) (partial) of cerebral artery
- thrombosis of cerebral artery
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.
- Angiospasm
- Arteriolith
- Clot > brain
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Embolism > brain
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Vasospasm > retina
- Embolism > cerebral
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Hollenhorst's plaque
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Arteritis > deformans
- Body, bodies > cytoid
- Embolism > ophthalmic
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Plaque > Hollenhorst's
- Embolism > intracranial
- Microembolism > retinal
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Embolism > retina, retinal
- Embolism > artery > retinal
- Embolism > vessels of brain
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Embolism > artery > cerebral
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Embolism > artery > ophthalmic
Showing 40 of 89 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I66.1 | Occlusion and stenosis of anterior cerebral artery | Not billable |
| I66.2 | Occlusion and stenosis of posterior cerebral artery | Not billable |
| I66.3 | Occlusion and stenosis of cerebellar arteries | Valid |
| I66.8 | Occlusion and stenosis of other cerebral arteries | Valid |
| I66.9 | Occlusion and stenosis of unspecified cerebral artery | Valid |