ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
I72.0 Aneurysm of carotid artery
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
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Coding notes for I72.0
Applicable to Other names for conditions reported with this code.
- Aneurysm of common carotid artery
- Aneurysm of external carotid artery
- Aneurysm of internal carotid artery, extracranial portion
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
Also applies, from I72 Other aneurysm
Includes Conditions this code covers.
- aneurysm (cirsoid) (false) (ruptured)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- acquired aneurysm (I77.0)
- aneurysm (of) aorta (I71.-)
- aneurysm (of) arteriovenous NOS (Q27.3-)
- carotid artery dissection (I77.71)
- cerebral (nonruptured) aneurysm (I67.1)
- coronary aneurysm (I25.4)
- coronary artery dissection (I25.42)
- dissection of artery NEC (I77.79)
- dissection of precerebral artery, congenital (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
- heart aneurysm (I25.3)
- iliac artery dissection (I77.72)
- precerebral artery, congential (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
- pulmonary artery aneurysm (I28.1)
- renal artery dissection (I77.73)
- retinal aneurysm (H35.0)
- ruptured cerebral aneurysm (I60.7)
- varicose aneurysm (I77.0)
- vertebral artery dissection (I77.74)
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 I72
- I72.1 Aneurysm of artery of upper extremityBillable
- I72.2 Aneurysm of renal arteryBillable
- I72.3 Aneurysm of iliac arteryBillable
- I72.4 Aneurysm of artery of lower extremityBillable
- I72.5 Aneurysm of other precerebral arteriesBillable
- I72.6 Aneurysm of vertebral arteryBillable
- I72.8 Aneurysm of other specified arteriesBillable
- I72.9 Aneurysm of unspecified siteBillable
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