Cerebral atherosclerosis
Billable / specific
I67.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Atheroma of cerebral and precerebral arteries
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from I67)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from I67)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from I67)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from I67)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from I67)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from I67)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from I67)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from I67)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from I67)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-) (from I67)
- sequelae of the listed conditions (I69.8) (from I67)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify presence of: (from I67)
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-) (from I67)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from I67)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from I67)
- hypertension (I10-I1A) (from I67)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from I67)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from I67)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from I67)
Also known as
- Atheroma of cerebral and precerebral arteries
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic, brain
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic, central nervous system
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic, cerebral
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic, cerebrovascular
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic, vertebral
- Atheroma, atheromatous, basilar
- Atheroma, atheromatous, carotid
- Atheroma, atheromatous, cerebral
- Atheroma, atheromatous, vertebral
- Calcification, cerebral, artery
- Degeneration, degenerative, brain, arteriosclerotic
- Degeneration, degenerative, cortical, diffuse, due to arteriopathy
- Disease, diseased, brain, arteriosclerotic
- Disease, diseased, brain, organic, arteriosclerotic
- Disease, diseased, cerebrovascular, arteriosclerotic
Parent code
- I67Other cerebrovascular diseasesHeader
Related codes
- I67.0Dissection of cerebral arteries, nonrupturedBillable
- I67.1Cerebral aneurysm, nonrupturedBillable
- I67.3Progressive vascular leukoencephalopathyBillable
- I67.4Hypertensive encephalopathyBillable
- I67.5Moyamoya diseaseBillable
- I67.6Nonpyogenic thrombosis of intracranial venous systemBillable
- I67.7Cerebral arteritis, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- I67.8Other specified cerebrovascular diseasesHeader
- I67.9Cerebrovascular disease, unspecifiedBillable