F06.7Mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition

F06.7 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition. It belongs to category F06 (other mental disorders due to known physiological condition), block F01-F09 (mental disorders due to known physiological conditions) and chapter 5 (mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within F06 (other mental disorders due to known physiological condition), F06.7 is specifically for mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition. Related codes cover psychotic disorder with hallucinations due to known physiological condition (F06.0), Catatonic disorder due to known physiological condition (F06.1), psychotic disorder with delusions due to known physiological condition (F06.2), mood disorder due to known physiological condition (F06.3), anxiety disorder due to known physiological condition (F06.4) and other specified mental disorders due to known physiological condition (F06.8).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: F06.70 (without behavioral disturbance) and F06.71 (with behavioral disturbance).

Don't report F06.7 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: age related cognitive decline (R41.81), altered mental status (R41.82), cerebral degeneration (G31.9), change in mental status (R41.82) and 5 more.

Code first the underlying physiological condition, such as: Alzheimer's disease (G30.-), human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20), Huntington's disease (G10), Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies (G31.83) and 6 more.

It was added in FY2023, effective October 1, 2022.