Question

The elderly patient was recently in the hospital for an acute cerebral infarction with right-sided hemiparesis. When transferred to the LTC facility, the diagnosis on admission is acute CVA. Assign the correct code

Answer 1

The code would be "I63.9".This is according to the 2017 ICD-10-CM Codes.ICD-10-CM stands for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification.After going to an index for these codes you should select:Step 1. Diseases of the circulatory system I00-I99Step 2. Cerebrovascular diseases I60-I69Step 3. Cerebral infarction I63Step 4. Choose I63.9 because there are no more specifications on the case as for its origin .