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Specific code 2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 348.9
Unspecified condition of brain
  • Short description: Brain condition NOS.
  • ICD-9-CM 348.9 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 348.9 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 348.9.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 348.9: 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 348.9 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM G93.9 Disorder of brain, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
  • Bacterial infectious disease of brain
  • Brain mass
  • Cerebellar deficiency syndrome
  • Cerebellar disorder
  • Cerebral gnathostomiasis
  • Disorder of brain
  • Disorder of brain stem
  • Disorder of cerebral cortex
  • Disorder of midbrain
  • Headache due to intracranial disease
  • Hypothalamic neuronal hamartoma
  • Lesion of brain
  • Mass lesion of brain
  • Mass, brain
  • Midline shift of brain
  • Non-specific brain syndrome
  • Pontoneocerebellar hypoplasia
  • Speech cortex disorder
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 348.9:
  • Damage
    • hypothalamus NEC 348.9
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • brain 348.9
      • Alzheimer's 331.0
        • with dementia - see Alzheimer's, dementia
      • arterial, artery 437.9
      • arteriosclerotic 437.0
      • congenital 742.9
      • degenerative - see Degeneration, brain
      • inflammatory - see also Encephalitis
        • late effect - see category 326
      • organic 348.9
      • parasitic NEC 123.9
      • Pick's 331.11
      • senile 331.2
    • cerebral (see also Disease, brain) 348.9
      • arterial, artery 437.9
      • degenerative - see Degeneration, brain
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