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ICD-10-CM Code for Altered mental status, unspecified R41.82

ICD-10 code R41.82 for Altered mental status, unspecified is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

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Official Long Descriptor

Altered mental status, unspecified
Change in mental status NOS
Excludes1: altered level of consciousness (R40.-)
altered mental status due to known condition - code to condition
delirium NOS (R41.0)

R41

Excludes1: dissociative [conversion] disorders (F44.-)
mild cognitive impairment of uncertain or unknown etiology (G31.84)

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