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Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 784.69
Other symbolic dysfunction
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 784.69 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 784.69 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).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 784.69 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM R48.1 Agnosia
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM R48.2 Apraxia
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM R48.8 Other symbolic dysfunctions
Approximate Synonyms
  • Acalculia
  • Agnosia
  • Agnosia for pain
  • Agnosia for taste
  • Agnosia for temperature
  • Agrammatism
  • Agraphia
  • Akinetic apraxia
  • Amnesic apraxia
  • Amusia
  • Anosodiaphoria
  • Aphasia, agnosia, dyslexia AND/OR apraxia
  • Aphasia, angular gyrus syndrome
  • Aphasia-angular gyrus syndrome
  • Aphasia-left parietal lobe syndrome
  • Apraxia
  • Apraxia of dressing
  • Apraxia of speech
  • Apraxia, developmental
  • Apraxic aphonia
  • Auditory agnosia
  • Autotopagnosia
  • Congenital apraxia
  • Congenital auditory agnosia
  • Constructional apraxia
  • Conversation content bizarre
  • Disturbance in thinking
  • Echolalia
  • Finger agnosia
  • Gait apraxia
  • Gerstmanns syndrome
  • Gestural apraxia
  • Ideational agnosia
  • Instrumental amusia
  • Language-related cognitive disorder
  • Limb-kinetic apraxia
  • Motor amusia
  • Motor apraxia
  • On examination - acalculia
  • On examination - agnosia
  • On examination - agraphia
  • On examination - apraxia
  • Oral apraxia
  • Position agnosia
  • Prosopagnosia
  • Scanning speech
  • Sensory agnosia
  • Sensory apraxia
  • Simultagnosia
  • Somatosensory agnosia
  • Tactile agnosia
  • Time agnosia
  • Transcortical apraxia
  • Verbal apraxia
  • Vocal motor amusia
Clinical Information
  • Form of aphasia involving impaired ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations
  • Inability to execute complex coordinated movements resulting from lesions in the motor area of the cortex but involving no sensory impairment or paralysis
  • Inability to recognize, understand, or interpret sensory stimuli in the absence of sensory defects. Also, the selective loss of knowledge of specific objects due to emotional disturbance, as seen in schizophrenia, hysteria, or depression
  • Inability to write (letters, syllables, words, or phrases) due to an injury to a specific cerebral area or occasionally due to emotional factors
  • Loss of ability to perform familiar, purposeful movements in the absence of paralysis or other neural sensorimotor impairment
  • Loss of the ability to distinguish the significance of stimuli; may be auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, or gustatory
Applies To
  • Acalculia
  • Agnosia
  • Agraphia NOS
  • Apraxia
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 784.69:
  • Abolition, language 784.69
  • Acalculia 784.69
  • Acatamathesia 784.69
  • Agnosia (body image) (tactile) 784.69
    • verbal 784.69
      • auditory 784.69
        • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
      • developmental 315.8
      • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
  • Agrammatism 784.69
  • Agraphia (absolute) 784.69
  • Amimia 784.69
  • Amnesia (retrograde) 780.93
    • auditory 784.69
      • developmental 315.31
      • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
  • Amusia 784.69
    • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
  • Anomia 784.69
  • Apraxia (classic) (ideational) (ideokinetic) (ideomotor) (motor) 784.69
    • verbal 784.69
  • Bianchi's syndrome (aphasia-apraxia-alexia) 784.69
  • Blindness (acquired) (congenital) (both eyes) 369.00
    • mind 784.69
    • psychic 784.69
  • Deafness (acquired) (complete) (congenital) (hereditary) (middle ear) (partial) 389.9
    • mental 784.69
    • word (secondary to organic lesion) 784.69
  • Dysfunction
    • symbolic NEC 784.60
      • specified type NEC 784.69
  • Echolalia 784.69
  • Gerstmann's syndrome (finger agnosia) 784.69
  • Language abolition 784.69
  • Mirror writing 315.09
    • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
  • Palilalia 784.69
  • Perseveration (tonic) 784.69
  • Strephosymbolia 315.01
    • secondary to organic lesion 784.69
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • aphasia-apraxia-alexia 784.69
    • Bianchi's (aphasia-apraxia-alexia syndrome) 784.69
    • Gerstmann's (finger agnosia) 784.69
  • Word
    • deafness (secondary to organic lesion) 784.69
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