I01Non-billableSave

I01 - Rheumatic fever with heart involvement

ICD-10-CM Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system · I00-I02 Acute rheumatic fever (I00-I02) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

I01 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 5 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom I01

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • chronic diseases of rheumatic origin (I05-I09) unless rheumatic fever is also present or there is evidence of reactivation or activity of the rheumatic process.
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter I00-I99

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • 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.-)

Documentation requirements, coding pitfalls and FAQs for conditions coded with I01.