F03.90 Diagnosis Code – ICD 10 Code F03.90 for Dementia

Billable/ Specific Code:

F03.90 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

F03.90, an ICD 10 diagnosis code for unspecified dementia at Nexus Clinical. Explore insights on F03.90 dementia, including its unspecified severity and absence of behavioral, psychotic, mood, and anxiety disturbances.

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Approximate Synonyms:

• Dementia
• Dementia late onset w hallucinations
• Dementia without behavioral disturbance
• Hallucinations co-occurrent and due to late onset dementia
• Mild dementia
• Mixed dementia
• Moderate dementia
• Organic dementia
• Presbyophrenia
• Presbyophrenic psychosis
• Presenile dementia
• Presenile dementia with delirium
• Presenile dementia with delusions
• Presenile dementia with depression
• Primary degenerative dementia
• Senile dementia
• Senile dementia w delusions
• Senile dementia with delirium
• Senile dementia with delusion
• Senile dementia with depression
• Senile dementia with paranoia
• Senile dementia with psychosis
• Severe dementia

Clinical Information

• A condition in which a person loses the ability to think, remember, learn, make decisions, and solve problems. Symptoms may also include personality changes and emotional problems. There are many causes of dementia, including alzheimer disease, brain cancer, and brain injury. Dementia usually gets worse over time.
• An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
• Dementia is the name for a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. It is not a specific disease. People with dementia may not be able to think well enough to do normal activities, such as getting dressed or eating. They may lose their ability to solve problems or control their emotions. Their personalities may change. They may become agitated or see things that are not there. Memory loss is a common symptom of dementia. However, memory loss by itself does not mean you have dementia. People with dementia have serious problems with two or more brain functions, such as memory and language. Although dementia is common in very elderly people, it is not part of normal aging.many different diseases can cause dementia, including alzheimer’s disease and stroke. Drugs are available to treat some of these diseases. While these drugs cannot cure dementia or repair brain damage, they may improve symptoms or slow down the disease.
• Loss of intellectual abilities interfering with an individual’s social and occupational functions. Causes include alzheimer’s disease, brain injuries, brain tumors, and vascular disorders.

ICD-10: A Brief Synopsis

For disease reporting, the US utilizes its own national variant of ICD-10 called the ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). A procedural classification called ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) has also been developed for capturing inpatient procedures. The ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS were developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). There are over 70,000 ICD-10-PCS procedure codes and over 69,000 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, compared to about 3,800 procedure codes and roughly 14,000 diagnosis codes found in the previous ICD-9-CM.

The expansion of healthcare delivery systems and changes in global health trends prompted a need for codes with improved clinical accuracy and specificity. The alphanumeric coding in ICD-10 is an improvement from ICD-9 which had a limited number of codes and a restrictive structure. Early concerns in the implementation of ICD-10 included the cost and the availability of resources for training healthcare workers and professional coders.

There was much controversy when the transition from the ICD-9-CM to the ICD-10-CM was first announced in the US. Many providers were concerned about the vast number of codes being added, the complexity of the new coding system, and the costs associated with the transition. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) weighed these concerns against the benefits of having more accurate data collection, clearer documentation of diagnoses and procedures, and more accurate claims processing. CMS decided the financial and public health cost associated with continuing to use the ICD-9-CM was too high and mandated the switch to ICD-10-CM.