Cognitive communication deficit

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 2011 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.

FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Cognitive communication deficit

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.

Deficit > cognitive > communication

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
R41.840	Attention and concentration deficit	Valid
R41.842	Visuospatial deficit	Valid
R41.843	Psychomotor deficit	Valid
R41.844	Frontal lobe and executive function deficit	Valid