1.The elderly patient was recently in the hospital for an acute cerebral infarction with right-sided hemiparesis. When transferred to the LTC facility, the diagnosis on admission is acute CVA. Assign the correct code
The code would be "I63.9". This is according to the 2017 ICD-10-CM Codes. ICD-10-CM stands for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification. After going to an index for these codes you should select: Step 1. Diseases of the circulatory system I00-I99 Step 2. Cerebrovascular diseases I60-I69 Step 3. Cerebral infarction I63 Step 4. Choose I63.9 because there are no more specifications on the case as for its origin .