ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R40-R46 › R41.8 Other symptoms and signs involving... › R41.81
Age-related cognitive decline
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Age-related cognitive decline
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)
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.
- Age
- Frailty > mental
- Senile, senility
- Decline > cognitive, age-associated
- Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > senile cognitive decline
- Symptoms NEC > involving > cognitive functions > senile cognitive decline
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R41.82 | Altered mental status, unspecified | Valid |
| R41.83 | Borderline intellectual functioning | Valid |
| R41.84 | Other specified cognitive deficit | Not billable |
| R41.85 | Anosognosia | Valid |
| R41.89 | Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness | Valid |