ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
I50.9 Heart failure, unspecified
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
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Coding notes for I50.9
Applicable to Other names for conditions reported with this code.
- Cardiac, heart or myocardial failure NOS
- Congestive heart disease
- Congestive heart failure NOS
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- fluid overload unrelated to congestive heart failure (E87.70)
Also applies, from I50 Heart failure
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
Code first Report the underlying condition's code before this one.
- heart failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8)
- heart failure due to hypertension (I11.0)
- heart failure due to hypertension with chronic kidney disease (I13.-)
- heart failure following surgery (I97.13-)
- obstetric surgery and procedures (O75.4)
- rheumatic heart failure (I09.81)
Chapter 9 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)
Related codes in I50
Latest research on heart failure
- Polycythemia is not associated with increased mortality in heart failure
- The use of guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is suboptimal
- Influenza vaccination improves survival and reduces readmissions in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure
- Sleep quality patterns may predict outcomes in patients with heart failure:
- Use of pregabalin may increase risk of heart failure in geriatric patients
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