Billable Medical Code for Acute, but Ill-Defined, Cerebrovascular Disease
Diagnosis Code for Reimbursement Claim: ICD-9-CM 436
Code will be replaced by October 2015 and relabeled as ICD-10-CM 436.
The Short Description Is: Cva
Known As
Acute stroke is also known as acute ill-defined cerebrovascular disease (disorder), ill defined cerebrovascular disease, acute, ill-defined cerebrovascular disease, acute, and superior cerebellar artery syndrome. This excludes any condition classifiable to categories 430-435, cerebrovascular accident (434.91), CVA (ischemic) (434.91), embolic (434.11), hemorrhagic (430, 431, 432.0-432.9), thrombotic (434.01), postoperative cerebrovascular accident (997.02), stroke (ischemic) (434.91), embolic (434.11), hemorrhagic (430, 431, 432.0-432.9), and
thrombotic (434.01). This applies to apoplexy apoplectic: NOS, attack, cerebral, seizure, and cerebral seizure.
Acute Stroke Definition and Symptoms
Acute stroke refers to a stroke that happens very suddenly. Doctors also use the term “acute” to refer to a stroke that occurred very recently (within hours). A stroke is when blood supply to the brain is cut off because of a blood clot that has blocked a blood vessel and can be extremely dangerous. Symptoms of a stoke are numbness in the left side of the body, double vision, slurred speech, hearing loss, dizziness, imbalance, and falling.