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I30 - Acute pericarditis

ICD-10-CM Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system · I30-I5A Other forms of heart disease (I30-I5A) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

I30 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 4 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

IncludesFrom I30

Conditions this code covers.

  • acute mediastinopericarditis
  • acute myopericarditis
  • acute pericardial effusion
  • acute pleuropericarditis
  • acute pneumopericarditis
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom I30

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

  • Dressler's syndrome (I24.1)
  • rheumatic pericarditis (acute) (I01.0)
  • viral pericarditis due to Coxsackie virus (B33.23)
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.-)

More Specific Codes (4)

I30.0Acute nonspecific idiopathic pericarditis→I30.1Infective pericarditis→I30.8Other forms of acute pericarditis→I30.9Acute pericarditis, unspecified→

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