ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I30-I5A › I42 Cardiomyopathy › I42.6
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
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 I42 Cardiomyopathy
Excludes2 - not included here
- ischemic cardiomyopathy (I25.5)
- peripartum cardiomyopathy (O90.3)
- ventricular hypertrophy (I51.7)
Code first
- pre-existing cardiomyopathy complicating pregnancy and puerperium (O99.4)
Includes
- myocardiopathy
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
- Myocardosis
- Ailment heart
- Use > alcohol
- Cardiostenosis
- Change > heart
- Crisis > heart
- Lesion > heart
- Myocardiopathy
- Strain > heart
- Morbus > cordis
- Organic > heart
- Paresis > heart
- Seizure > heart
- Trouble > heart
- Cachexia > heart
- Collapse > heart
- Lesion > cardiac
- 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
- Use > volatile solvents
- Decompensation > cardiac
Showing 40 of 90 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I42.0 | Dilated cardiomyopathy | Not billable |
| I42.1 | Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Valid |
| I42.2 | Other hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Valid |
| I42.3 | Endomyocardial (eosinophilic) disease | Valid |
| I42.4 | Endocardial fibroelastosis | Valid |
| I42.5 | Other restrictive cardiomyopathy | Valid |
| I42.7 | Cardiomyopathy due to drug and external agent | Valid |
| I42.8 | Other cardiomyopathies | Not billable |
| I42.9 | Cardiomyopathy, unspecified | Valid |