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I23.2

Ventricular septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Ventricular septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from the I20-I25 section Ischemic heart diseases (I20-I25)

Code also

  • the presence of hypertension (I10-I1A)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I23.0 Hemopericardium as current complication following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.1 Atrial septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.3 Rupture of cardiac wall without hemopericardium as current complication following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.4 Rupture of chordae tendineae as current complication following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.5 Rupture of papillary muscle as current complication following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.6 Thrombosis of atrium, auricular appendage, and ventricle as current complications following acute myocardial infarction Valid
I23.7 Postinfarction angina Valid
I23.8 Other current complications following acute myocardial infarction Valid