Heart failure, unspecified
Billable / specificHCC V28 226
I50.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Cardiac, heart or myocardial failure NOS
- Congestive heart disease
- Congestive heart failure NOS
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- fluid overload unrelated to congestive heart failure (E87.70)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from I50)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from I50)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from I50)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from I50)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from I50)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from I50)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from I50)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from I50)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from I50)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-) (from I50)
- cardiac arrest (I46.-) (from I50)
- neonatal cardiac failure (P29.0) (from I50)
Code first
Sequence the underlying condition first.
- heart failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8) (from I50)
- heart failure due to hypertension (I11.0) (from I50)
- heart failure due to hypertension with chronic kidney disease (I13.-) (from I50)
- heart failure following surgery (I97.13-) (from I50)
- obstetric surgery and procedures (O75.4) (from I50)
- rheumatic heart failure (I09.81) (from I50)
Also known as
- Cardiac, heart or myocardial failure NOS
- Congestive heart disease
- Congestive heart failure NOS
- Asthenia, asthenic, cardiac
- Asthenia, asthenic, cardiovascular
- Asthenia, asthenic, heart
- Asthenia, asthenic, myocardial
- Dysfunction, ventricular, with congestive heart failure
- Failure, failed, cardiorenal
- Failure, failed, heart
- Failure, failed, heart, with decompensation
- Failure, failed, heart, compensated
- Failure, failed, heart, congestive
- Failure, failed, heart, decompensated
- Failure, failed, heart, low outputNOS
- Failure, failed, myocardial, myocardium
- Failure, failed, myocardial, myocardium, chronic
- Failure, failed, myocardial, myocardium, congestive
Parent code
- I50Heart failureHeader