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A81.01 - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease


The ICD 10 Code for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is listed as A81.01.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: A81.01
Description: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • vCJD
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
056 - Degenerative Nervous System Disorders W Mcc
057 - Degenerative Nervous System Disorders W/o Mcc
Chapter Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Block Viral and prion infections of the central nervous system (A80-A89)
Parent A81.0 - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 046.11 - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of A81.01:
A81.00 - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, unspecified
A81.09 - Other Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease