ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I70 Atherosclerosis › I70.9
Other and unspecified atherosclerosis
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other and unspecified atherosclerosis
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 I70 Atherosclerosis
Excludes2 - not included here
- arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (I25.1-)
- arteriosclerotic heart disease (I25.1-)
- atheroembolism (I75.-)
- cerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- coronary atherosclerosis (I25.1-)
- mesenteric atherosclerosis (K55.1)
- precerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- primary pulmonary atherosclerosis (I27.0)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- 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)
Includes
- arteriolosclerosis
- arterial degeneration
- arteriosclerosis
- arteriosclerotic vascular disease
- arteriovascular degeneration
- atheroma
- endarteritis deformans or obliterans
- senile arteritis
- senile endarteritis
- vascular degeneration
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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Angiospasm
- Impervious
- Arteriolith
- Imperforate
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Yellow > jaundice
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Vasospasm > retina
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Hollenhorst's plaque
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Arteritis > deformans
- Body, bodies > cytoid
- Embolism > ophthalmic
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Plaque > Hollenhorst's
- Microembolism > retinal
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Embolism > retina, retinal
- Embolism > artery > retinal
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Embolism > artery > ophthalmic
Showing 40 of 94 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I70.0 | Atherosclerosis of aorta | Valid |
| I70.1 | Atherosclerosis of renal artery | Valid |
| I70.2 | Atherosclerosis of native arteries of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.3 | Atherosclerosis of unspecified type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.4 | Atherosclerosis of autologous vein bypass graft(s) of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.5 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.6 | Atherosclerosis of nonbiological bypass graft(s) of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.7 | Atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities | Not billable |
| I70.8 | Atherosclerosis of other arteries | Valid |