Left ventricular failure, unspecified

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 Left ventricular failure
FY2018 Description revised ~~Left ventricular failure~~ Left ventricular failure, unspecified

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 I50 Heart failure

Excludes2 - not included here

cardiac arrest (I46.-)
neonatal cardiac failure (P29.0)

Code first

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)

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.

Pitted
Pitting
Lipedema
Retained
Cardiosis
Congestive
Bad > heart
Cardiopathy
Convulsions
Fluid > lung
Ailment heart
Cardiostenosis
Change > heart
Crisis > heart
Lesion > heart
Strain > heart
Morbus > cordis
Organic > heart
Paresis > heart
Rostan's asthma
Seizure > heart
Trouble > heart
Cachexia > heart
Collapse > heart
Hyperemia > lung
Lesion > cardiac
Dyspnea > cardiac
Retention > water
Stricture > heart
Cachexia > cardiac
Engorgement > lung
Postsurgery status
Potain's > disease
Stasis > pulmonary
Compression > heart
Myasthenia > cordis
Stricture > cardiac
Tear, torn > muscle
Tear, torn > tendon
Fatigue > myocardium

Showing 40 of 119 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
I50.2	Systolic (congestive) heart failure	Not billable
I50.3	Diastolic (congestive) heart failure	Not billable
I50.4	Combined systolic (congestive) and diastolic (congestive) heart failure	Not billable
I50.8	Other heart failure	Not billable
I50.9	Heart failure, unspecified	Valid