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R41.8

Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

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 6 more specific codes instead:

  • R41.81 Age-related cognitive decline
  • R41.82 Altered mental status, unspecified
  • R41.83 Borderline intellectual functioning
  • R41.84 Other specified cognitive deficit (also a header)
  • R41.85 Anosognosia
  • R41.89 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

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 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

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 R41 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • dissociative [conversion] disorders (F44.-)
  • mild cognitive impairment of uncertain or unknown etiology (G31.84)

Inherited from the R40-R46 section Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • symptoms and signs constituting part of a pattern of mental disorder (F01-F99)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
R41.0 Disorientation, unspecified Valid
R41.1 Anterograde amnesia Valid
R41.2 Retrograde amnesia Valid
R41.3 Other amnesia Valid
R41.4 Neurologic neglect syndrome Valid
R41.9 Unspecified symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness Valid