2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R41.2

Retrograde amnesia

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  • R41.2 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
  • The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM R41.2 became effective on October 1, 2022.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of R41.2 - other international versions of ICD-10 R41.2 may differ.
The following code(s) above R41.2 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
  • Applicable To annotations, or
  • Code Also annotations, or
  • Code First annotations, or
  • Excludes1 annotations, or
  • Excludes2 annotations, or
  • Includes annotations, or
  • Note annotations, or
  • Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to R41.2:
  • R00-R99
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range R00-R99

    Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

    Note
    • This chapter includes symptoms, signs, abnormal results of clinical or other investigative procedures, and ill-defined conditions regarding which no diagnosis classifiable elsewhere is recorded.
    • Signs and symptoms that point rather definitely to a given diagnosis have been assigned to a category in other chapters of the classification. In general, categories in this chapter include the less well-defined conditions and symptoms that, without the necessary study of the case to establish a final diagnosis, point perhaps equally to two or more diseases or to two or more systems of the body. Practically all categories in the chapter could be designated 'not otherwise specified', 'unknown etiology' or 'transient'. The Alphabetical Index should be consulted to determine which symptoms and signs are to be allocated here and which to other chapters. The residual subcategories, numbered .8, are generally provided for other relevant symptoms that cannot be allocated elsewhere in the classification.
    • The conditions and signs or symptoms included in categories R00-R94 consist of:
    • (a) cases for which no more specific diagnosis can be made even after all the facts bearing on the case have been investigated;
    • (b) signs or symptoms existing at the time of initial encounter that proved to be transient and whose causes could not be determined;
    • (c) provisional diagnosis in a patient who failed to return for further investigation or care;
    • (d) cases referred elsewhere for investigation or treatment before the diagnosis was made;
    • (e) cases in which a more precise diagnosis was not available for any other reason;
    • (f) certain symptoms, for which supplementary information is provided, that represent important problems in medical care in their own right.
    Type 2 Excludes
    • abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother (O28.-)
    • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
    • signs and symptoms classified in the body system chapters
    • signs and symptoms of breast (N63, N64.5)
    Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
  • R40-R46
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range R40-R46

    Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior

    Type 2 Excludes
    • symptoms and signs constituting part of a pattern of mental disorder (F01-F99)
    Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior
  • R41
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R41

    Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

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    Type 1 Excludes
    • dissociative [conversion] disorders (F44.-)
    • mild cognitive impairment, so stated (G31.84)
    Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness
Approximate Synonyms
  • Amnesia, retrograde
Clinical Information
  • Loss of the ability to recall information that had been previously encoded in memory prior to a specified or approximate point in time. This process may be organic or psychogenic in origin. Organic forms may be associated with craniocerebral trauma; cerebrovascular accidents; seizures; dementia; and a wide variety of other conditions that impair cerebral function. (from Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp426-9)
  • Memory loss for events and experiences that occurred before the incident that produced the amnesia.
ICD-10-CM R41.2 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v40.0):
  • 947 Signs and symptoms with mcc
  • 948 Signs and symptoms without mcc

Convert R41.2 to ICD-9-CM

Code History
  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
Code annotations containing back-references to R41.2:
  • Type 1 Excludes: F04
    , F44.0
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F04

    Amnestic disorder due to known physiological condition

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    Applicable To
    • Korsakov's psychosis or syndrome, nonalcoholic
    Code First
    • the underlying physiological condition
    Type 1 Excludes
    • amnesia NOS (R41.3)
    • anterograde amnesia (R41.1)
    • dissociative amnesia (F44.0)
    • retrograde amnesia (R41.2)
    Type 2 Excludes
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F44.0

    Dissociative amnesia

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    Type 1 Excludes
    • amnesia NOS (R41.3)
    • anterograde amnesia (R41.1)
    • dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue (F44.1)
    • retrograde amnesia (R41.2)
    Type 2 Excludes
    • alcohol-or other psychoactive substance-induced amnestic disorder (F10, F13, F19 with .26, .96)
    • amnestic disorder due to known physiological condition (F04)
    • postictal amnesia in epilepsy (G40.-)

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to R41.2:
  • Amnesia R41.3
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R41.3

    Other amnesia

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    Applicable To
    • Amnesia NOS
    • Memory loss NOS
    Type 1 Excludes
    • amnestic disorder due to known physiologic condition (F04)
    • amnestic syndrome due to psychoactive substance use (F10-F19 with 5th character .6)
    • mild memory disturbance due to known physiological condition (F06.8)
    • transient global amnesia (G45.4)
    • retrograde R41.2

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To R41.2
R40.2440 …… unspecified time
R40.2441 …… in the field [EMT or ambulance]
R40.2442 …… at arrival to emergency department
R40.2443 …… at hospital admission
R40.2444 …… 24 hours or more after hospital admission
R40.3 Persistent vegetative state
R40.4 Transient alteration of awareness
R41 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness
R41.0 Disorientation, unspecified
R41.1 Anterograde amnesia
R41.2 Retrograde amnesia
R41.3 Other amnesia
R41.4 Neurologic neglect syndrome
R41.8 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness
R41.81 Age-related cognitive decline
R41.82 Altered mental status, unspecified
R41.83 Borderline intellectual functioning
R41.84 Other specified cognitive deficit
R41.840 Attention and concentration deficit
R41.841 Cognitive communication deficit
R41.842 Visuospatial deficit

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.