Other ill-defined heart diseases
Non-billable header
I51.8 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from I51)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from I51)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from I51)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from I51)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from I51)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from I51)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from I51)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from I51)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from I51)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-) (from I51)
- heart disease specified as rheumatic (I00-I09) (from I51)
Parent code
- I51Complications and ill-defined descriptions of heart diseaseHeader
More specific codes I51.8
Related codes
- I51.0Cardiac septal defect, acquiredBillable
- I51.1Rupture of chordae tendineae, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- I51.2Rupture of papillary muscle, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- I51.3Intracardiac thrombosis, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- I51.4Myocarditis, unspecifiedBillable
- I51.5Myocardial degenerationBillable
- I51.7CardiomegalyBillable
- I51.9Heart disease, unspecifiedBillable