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ICD-10-CM Code for Alzheimer's disease G30

ICD-10 code G30 for Alzheimer's disease is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the nervous system .

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Official Long Descriptor

Alzheimer's disease
Includes: Alzheimer's dementia senile and presenile forms
Use additional code, if applicable, to identify:
delirium, if applicable (F05)
dementia with anxiety (F02.84, F02.A4, F02.B4, F02.C4)
dementia with behavioral disturbance (F02.81-, F02.A1-, F02.B1-, F02.C1-)
dementia with mood disturbance (F02.83, F02.A3, F02.B3, F02.C3)
dementia with psychotic disturbance (F02.82, F02.A2, F02.B2, F02.C2)
dementia without behavioral disturbance (F02.80, F02.A0, F02.B0, F02.C0)
mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition (F06.7-)
Excludes1: senile degeneration of brain NEC (G31.1)
senile dementia NOS (F03.-)
senility NOS (R41.81)
 
G30 Alzheimer's disease
Child Code
Alzheimer's disease with early onset
Child Code
Alzheimer's disease with late onset
Child Code
Other Alzheimer's disease
Child Code
Alzheimer's disease, unspecified

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Use additional/code also notes in code book
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[QUOTE="warrenfamily103@gmail.com, post: 488934, member: 599309"] Great, thanks. I wasn’t sure if the provider needed to specifically state that there wasn’t any behavioral disturbance or not. So ... [ Read More ]
Manifestation codes
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Early onset vs late onset alzheimer's disease
:o[QUOTE="trichards139, post: 416028, member: 55488"]Does anyone know if when documentation does not specify early or late onset for Alzheimer's disease, can you default to "late" G30.1 instead of usi... [ Read More ]
Early onset vs late onset alzheimer's disease
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ICD-10 coding for agitation and Alzheimer's disease
[b]coding for agitation and AD[/b] [QUOTE="hbajnrauh, post: 405291, member: 394727"]Can someone please tell me what ICD-10 code to use for agitation for Alzheimer's Disease? Thank you.[/QUOTE] I w... [ Read More ]
G30.8 vs G30.9
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