Silent myocardial ischemia

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Silent myocardial ischemia

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 I25 Chronic ischemic heart disease

Excludes2 - not included here

non-ischemic myocardial injury (I5A)

Use additional code

code to identify:
chronic total occlusion of coronary artery (I25.82)
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)

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.

Cardiosis
Bad > heart
Cardiopathy
Convulsions
Ailment heart
Cardiostenosis
Change > heart
Crisis > heart
Lesion > heart
Strain > heart
Morbus > cordis
Organic > heart
Paresis > heart
Seizure > heart
Trouble > heart
Cachexia > heart
Collapse > heart
Lesion > cardiac
Change > coronary
Damage > coronary
Stricture > heart
Cachexia > cardiac
Compression > heart
Myasthenia > cordis
Stricture > cardiac
Tear, torn > muscle
Tear, torn > tendon
Fatigue > myocardium
Collapse > myocardial
Low > cardiac reserve
Low > output syndrome
Mental > subnormality
Compensation > failure
Complication > cardiac
Decompensation > heart
Sudden > heart failure
Thyrotoxicosis > heart
Decompensation > cardiac
Destruction, destructive
Failure, failed > cardiac

Showing 40 of 87 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
I25.1	Atherosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery	Not billable
I25.2	Old myocardial infarction	Valid
I25.3	Aneurysm of heart	Valid
I25.4	Coronary artery aneurysm and dissection	Not billable
I25.5	Ischemic cardiomyopathy	Valid
I25.7	Atherosclerosis of coronary artery bypass graft(s) and coronary artery of transplanted heart with angina pectoris	Not billable
I25.8	Other forms of chronic ischemic heart disease	Not billable
I25.9	Chronic ischemic heart disease, unspecified	Valid