ICD-10-CM code "A81.01": Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeA81.01
DescriptionVariant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Hierarchy
  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  2. Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)
  3. Atypical virus infections of central nervous system (A81)
  4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.0)
  5. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.01)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

Excludes

  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Type 1certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters

    Type 2carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)

    Type 2infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)

    Type 2infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)

    Type 2influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)

  2. Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)

    Type 1postpolio syndrome (G14)

    Type 1sequelae of poliomyelitis (B91)

    Type 1sequelae of viral encephalitis (B94.1)

  3. Atypical virus infections of central nervous system (A81)
  4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.0)
  5. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.01)

Includes

  1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Includesdiseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

  2. Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)
  3. Atypical virus infections of central nervous system (A81)

    Includesdiseases of the central nervous system caused by prions

  4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.0)
  5. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.01)