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Specific code 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 348.89
Other conditions of brain
  • 2014
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • Short description: Brain conditions NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 348.89 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 348.89 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 2014 version of ICD-9-CM 348.89.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 348.89: 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 348.89 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM G93.89 Other specified disorders of brain
Approximate Synonyms
  • Absence seizure with automatisms
  • Acquired cerebral ventriculomegaly
  • Acquired ventriculomegaly
  • Automatism
  • Basal ganglia degeneration with calcification
  • Borries' syndrome
  • Brain compression due to focal lesion
  • Brain death documented by electrocerebral silence (finding)
  • Brain lesion
  • Brain mass
  • Brainstem death
  • Cerebral alteration
  • Cerebral calcification
  • Cerebral loiasis
  • Cerebral pseudosclerosis
  • Cerebral ventricular distension
  • Cerebral ventriculomegaly
  • Command automatism
  • Compression of brain due to focal lesion
  • Cortical paralysis of fixation syndrome
  • Discrimination disorder
  • Dorsal midbrain syndrome
  • Electrocerebral silence
  • Electrocerebral silence (brain death)
  • Hamartoma of brain
  • Infectious disease of brain
  • Ischemic encephalopathy
  • Language disorder associated with right hemisphere damage
  • Lesion of brain
  • Localized cranial lesion
  • Mass lesion of brain
  • Motor cortical disorder
  • Parkinsonism with calcification of basal ganglia
  • Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications
  • Pneumocephalus
  • Polioencephalopathy
  • Premotor cortex syndrome
  • Sensory somatic cortical disorder
  • Stenosis of foramen magnum
  • Suprasellar syndrome
  • Sylvian aqueduct syndrome
  • Syringoencephalia
  • Syringoencephalomyelia
  • Tension pneumocephalus
  • Thalamic pain
  • Thalamic syndrome
  • Ventriculomegaly
  • Ventriculomegaly, brain
  • West syndrome
348.89 Excludes
Applies To
  • Cerebral:
    • calcification
    • fungus
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 348.89:
  • Automatism 348.89
    • with temporal sclerosis 348.81
    • epileptic (see also Epilepsy) 345.4
    • paroxysmal, idiopathic (see also Epilepsy) 345.4
  • Calcification
    • cerebral (cortex) 348.89
  • Cerebromalacia (see also Softening, brain) 348.89
    • due to cerebrovascular accident 438.89
  • Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) 709.2
    • brain 348.89
  • Deformity 738.9
    • cerebral (congenital) 742.9
      • acquired 348.89
  • Depression 311
    • medullary 348.89
    • respiratory center 348.89
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • medullary center (idiopathic) (respiratory) 348.89
  • Encephalomalacia (brain) (cerebellar) (cerebral) (cerebrospinal) (see also Softening, brain) 348.89
    • due to
      • hemorrhage (see also Hemorrhage, brain) 431
      • recurrent spasm of artery 435.9
    • embolic (cerebral) (see also Embolism, brain) 434.1
    • subcorticalis chronicus arteriosclerotica 290.12
    • thrombotic (see also Thrombosis, brain) 434.0
  • Failure, failed
  • Fistula (sinus) 686.9
    • brain 348.89
      • arteriovenous - see Fistula, arteriovenous, brain
  • Flat
    • electroencephalogram (EEG) 348.89
  • Fungus, fungous
    • cerebral 348.89
  • Granuloma NEC 686.1
    • cerebral 348.89
  • Hardening
    • brain 348.89
  • Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
    • brain 348.89
  • Induration, indurated
    • brain 348.89
  • Lesion(s)
    • brain 348.89
      • congenital 742.9
      • vascular (see also Lesion, cerebrovascular) 437.9
        • degenerative 437.1
        • healed or old without residuals V12.54
        • hypertensive 437.2
        • late effect - see Late effect(s) (of) cerebrovascular disease
    • motor cortex 348.89
  • Ondine's curse 348.89
  • Pneumatocele (lung) 518.89
    • intracranial 348.89
  • Pneumocephalus 348.89
  • Sclerosis, sclerotic
  • Softening
    • brain (necrotic) (progressive) 348.89
      • arteriosclerotic 437.0
      • congenital 742.4
      • due to cerebrovascular accident 438.89
      • embolic (see also Embolism, brain) 434.1
      • hemorrhagic (see also Hemorrhage, brain) 431
      • occlusive 434.9
      • thrombotic (see also Thrombosis, brain) 434.0
  • Stenosis (cicatricial) - see also Stricture
    • brain 348.89
  • Stricture (see also Stenosis) 799.89
    • brain 348.89
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Clérambault's
      • automatism 348.89
      • erotomania 297.8
    • midbrain 348.89
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