ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
I65.01 Occlusion and stenosis of right vertebral artery
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
About I65.01
- Code
- I65.01
- Billable
- Yes
- Short description
- Occlusion and stenosis of right vertebral artery
- Category
- I65 Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral arteries, not resulting in cerebral infarction
- Block
- I60-I69 Cerebrovascular diseases
- Chapter
- 9 Diseases of the circulatory system
- Code set
- FY2027, October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027
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Coding notes for I65.01
No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.
Also applies, from I65 Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral arteries, not resulting in cerebral infarction
Includes Conditions this code covers.
- embolism of precerebral artery
- narrowing of precerebral artery
- obstruction (complete) (partial) of precerebral artery
- thrombosis of precerebral artery
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
Block I60-I69 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)
Use additional code Add a second code for the detail named here.
Chapter 9 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)
Related codes in I65.0
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