I00

Rheumatic fever without heart involvement

Billable / specific

I00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Includes

  • arthritis, rheumatic, acute or subacute

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • rheumatic fever with heart involvement (I01.0 -I01.9)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)

Also known as

  • Erythema, erythematous, marginatum, inacute rheumatic fever
  • Fever, rheumatic
  • Pneumonia, in rheumatic fever
  • Pneumonia, rheumatic
  • Rheumatic, pneumonia

Related codes

  • I01Rheumatic fever with heart involvementHeader
  • I02Rheumatic choreaHeader

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