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I50 - Heart failure

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

I50 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 6 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom I50

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

Code FirstFrom I50

Sequence the underlying condition before this code.

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)

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 I50.

Chapter Information

Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system

Related ICD-10 Codes

More specific codes for I50

Other categories in this chapter

Codes at the same level as I50

39 more in this chapter.