Name: Frontal lobe and executive function deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage
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Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives: 5 Excludes1 · 8 use-additional codes

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

MS-DRG 056 — DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 01)
MS-DRG 057 — DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 01)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for I69.214 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on I69.214 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

personal history of cerebral infarction without residual deficit (Z86.73) inherited from I69Compare I69.214 vs Z86.73 →
personal history of prolonged reversible ischemic neurologic deficit (PRIND) (Z86.73) inherited from I69Compare I69.214 vs Z86.73 →
personal history of reversible ischemic neurologcial deficit (RIND) (Z86.73) inherited from I69Compare I69.214 vs Z86.73 →
sequelae of traumatic intracranial injury (S06.-) inherited from I69Compare I69.214 vs S06 →
traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-) inherited from I60-I69Compare I69.214 vs S06 →

Use Additional Code

Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.

Use additional 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)

Source: inherited from I60-I69

Coder workflow for I69.214

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code I69.214

Check the Excludes1 note: if the documentation supports a condition named there, do not simply proceed with I69.214. Excludes1 conditions are not reported together with this code unless the record shows they are unrelated (Guidelines I.A.12.a).
See the official tabular notes

Choose the right path

Does the documentation support a condition named in I69.214’s Excludes1 note?
Yes → Do not simply proceed: review the excluded code. Both are reported only when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated.
No → Continue.
ReviewZ86.73, S06

Consider I69.214. Then work the Use Additional Code note, and confirm the code is valid for the date of service in the Verify section.

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement: Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).
The conditions the Use Additional Code note names: Reported with this code when documented; a conditional instruction (“if applicable”, “if known”) applies only when the record supports it.

Official instructions as workflow

Excludes1 — check before selecting I69.214(5 notes)
Coding workflow: If the documentation supports a condition named in this note, do not simply proceed with I69.214: the two are not reported together. The one exception is when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated to each other.
CompareZ86.73, S06
See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.a
Use Additional Code — after identifying I69.214(8 notes)
Coding workflow: Check whether the documentation supports the additional code(s) the note names, and report them with I69.214 when it does. Where the instruction is conditional (“if applicable”, “if known”), it applies only when the record documents the condition.
ReviewF10, Z77.22, Z87.891, Z57.31, F17, Z72.0
See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.13

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: Both the condition I69.214 describes and a condition named in its Excludes1 note are documented for the same encounter.

Coding question: Can both codes be reported?

Path: Review the Excludes1 note and the excluded code, and look for a provider statement on whether the two conditions are related.

Reason: Excludes1 means the two are not coded together; the exception is when the record shows the conditions are unrelated to each other (Guidelines I.A.12.a).

ReviewZ86.73, S06

Documentation: A condition the Use Additional Code note names is documented.

Coding question: Is a second code reported with I69.214?

Path: Review the Use Additional Code note and the code it names.

Reason: The additional code is reported when the record documents the condition; a conditional instruction applies only when its condition is met (Guidelines I.A.13).

ReviewF10, Z77.22, Z87.891, Z57.31, F17, Z72.0

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Code Overview

Frontal lobe and executive function deficit following other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (I69.214).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (2)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Official Coding Guidelines

Official source data — quoted verbatim from the CMS/NCHS Official Guidelines

Verbatim excerpts from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (CMS/NCHS) that govern this code.