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Q& A: Documentation For Coding Heart Failure
Sharme Brodie,RN, CCDS
Q: If the documentation states, diastolic heart failure euvolemic or diastolic HF hypervolemic, can we code chronic diastolic HF and acute diastolic HF, respectively?
A: Unfortunately, you may not like my answer, which is no, this documentation would not be acceptable to pick up either diagnoses of chronic or acute diastolic heart failure.
Code assignment is based on the physician documentation of the type and acuity of the HF. Euvolemic is a medical term that implies the patient appears to have normal circulatory or blood fluid volume. Hypervolemia or fluid overload is the medical condition where there is too much fluid in the blood, because not every patient is in fluid overload or hypervolemia at the time of admission, many physicians are now use HF versus congestive heart failure in their documentation.
There are many types of HF, and CHF is just one type. There is a code in ICD-10-CM for fluid overload: E87.70, Fluid over, unspecified. This is also where hypervolemia would be coded.
Now, in AHA Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2016, it did state that HFpEF could be referred to as diastolic heart failure and that HFrEF could be referred to as systolic heart failure. This advice supersedes information previously given in Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2014. This is why its very important to keep up with the advice given by Coding Clinic.
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Systolic Heart Failure I502
The ICD10 code for the diagnosis “Systolic heart failure” is “I50.2”. I50.2 is NOT a ‘valid’ or ‘billable’ ICD10 code. Please select a more specific diagnosis below.
- I50.2 should not be used for reimbursement purposes. Please select a more specific diagnosis below.
- The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM I50.2 became effective on October 1, 2018.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I50.2 – other international versions of ICD-10 I50.2 may differ.
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Systolic left ventricular heart failure
- end stage heart failure, if applicable
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Htn With Chf Icd 10 Code
HTN with CHF are two conditions, there is a combined category for this co-existing term I11. There are only codes in this category, I11.0, and I11.9. According to the ICD 10 system, hypertensive heart disease is either with I11.0 or without heart failure I11.9.
Whenever a medical note states hypertension and heart failure, a coder should assume a causal relationship between these two conditions and choose the code I11.0 in that case. There is an instruction to choose a code from category I50 to specify the types of heart failure.
For example, if simply hypertension with heart failure is mentioned, the ICD 10 code for HTN with CHF is I11.0 and I50.9 as no other details about heart failure have been provided.
Q& A: Congestive Heart Failure Coding
Q: In the past few weeks, we noticed physicians are documenting acute congestive heart failure with preserved ejection fraction , instead of diastolic or systolic. In speaking with the physicians, they say the heart failure is not diastolic or systolic. What is the best way to approach this issue?
A: You are experiencing a very common frustration for both coders and CDI specialists. The term preserved EF in general equates to a diastolic heart failure. But, as you clearly understand, we cannot apply the code for the diastolic heart failure with the use of that verbiage.
The descriptions of diastolic and systolic in categorizing heart failure are older terms, and the code set has not yet caught up to the new wording. I encouraged my providers to state diastolic heart failure with preserved EF. This documentation gives coders what they need, and allows physicians to use clinically-accepted language.
AHAs Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM, First Quarter, 2014 speaks to this. It provides two examples. First, can heart failure with preserved EF or heart failure with preserved systolic function be coded as diastolic heart failure? Second, can heart failure with reduced EF, heart failure with low EF, or heart failure with reduced systolic function be coded as systolic heart failure?
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Acute Systolic Chf Icd 10
If the patients condition is acute, the second code under this subcategory should be used for reimbursement purposes. If the medical note states that the patients condition has been worsening or there is an emergency condition of chronic failure but does not document it as acute, do not presume it as an acute condition.
A query to the medical doctor would work here best asking about the exact condition. The ICD 10 code for acute systolic CHF is I50.21.
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Chf Icd 10 Codes And Guidelines
Most of the heart failure codes include in chapter 9 of ICD-10 CM manual, diseases of circulatory system, code range I00-I99.
- Combination code If patient has any type of heart failure and hypertension, it should be combined and coded as I11.0 eventhough physician has not linked both. It should not be coded combined if the medical record states the conditions are unrelated.
- Heart failure should be coded additionally when coding I11.0
- Do not code I11.9 when coding I11.0 .
- When coding biventricular heart failure it is necessary to code the type of left heart failure also according to the code also note with I50.82
Go by Failure, Heart to find correct codes for heart failure in ICD-10 CM manual index.
Look at the below scenarios to clearly understand the coding concepts of CHF.
CHF ICD 10 Code Example 1
Elizabeth is a 65 year old female who comes to emergency department for shortness of breath and leg edema from past 2 days. She came to visit doctor as the symptoms are getting worse. She has hypertension and takes Lisinopril for the same. She does not have chest pain or palpitation. She is not a smoker. Her family history includes heart disease for her mother and brother. Vitals showed temperature 97.3 F, heart rate 72 bpm, respiratory rate 25, BP 150/96 mmHg. Physical exam showed pitting edema on both the extremities, shortness of breath and dry skin. Physician ordered for blood tests, EKG and chest X-ray. This case was diagnosed as acute diastolic heart failure.
Chronic Combined Systolic And Diastolic Heart Failure
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Billable/Specific Code
- I50.42 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- Short description: Chronic combined systolic and diastolic hrt fail
- The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM I50.42 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I50.42 – other international versions of ICD-10 I50.42 may differ.
- Applicable To annotations, or
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Complications & Comorbid Conditions Rules For I5023
When I50.23 is used as a secondary diagnostic code, the patient’s visit may be considered to have Complications & Comorbid Conditions or Major Complications & Comorbid Conditions .
Exclusions apply. When the primary diagnostic code is is in the exclusion list, the patient visit CC/MCC does not qualify for a CC or MCC.
CC/MCC grouping rules are adjusted each year, so check the rules for the fiscal year of the patient’s discharge date.
Primary Icd Therapy For Icm In Nyha Class I May Have Incremental
1 week agoJun 20, 2019 ÷Of the 1670 patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy, 317 did not have heartfailure symptoms . The average age of participants was 66ñ10 years, 90% were male, and most had a history of myocardial infarction . There were significant differences in baseline clinical characteristics between patients with and without HF symptoms.
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Symptoms Of Congestive Heart Failure
Heart failure can be ongoing , or your condition may start suddenly . Heart failure signs and symptoms may include shortness of breath when you exert yourself or when you lie down, fatigue and weakness, swelling in your legs, rapid or irregular heartbeat, reduced ability to exercise, persistent cough or wheezing with white or pink blood-tinged phlegm, increased need to urinate at night, swelling of your abdomen , very rapid weight gain from fluid retention, lack of appetite and nausea, difficulty concentrating or decreased alertness, sudden or severe shortness of breath and coughing up pink and foamy mucus, and chest pain if your heart failure is caused by a heart attack
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Tabular List Of Diseases And Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized head to toe into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code I50.9:
Inclusion Terms
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Nyha Class Ii Or Iii Heart Failure: Who Will Need An
4 days agoin the prevention of SCD in NYHA class II HF. One of the trials which found a sig-nificant role of ICD in type III heartfailure was underpowered. Thus, further trials are needed to validate the use of ICD in the prevention of SCD in type III HF. Keywords Heart Failure, Sudden Cardiac Death, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, ICD, NYHA, ESC 1.
April 23, 2021 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
I was reading an article the other day about a young man who developed severe biventricular heart failure after consuming a large quantity of an energy drink every day for 2 years. I remember my days as a college student and the need to be mentally alert for my classes and studies. We didnt have energy drinks at that time, but there were, and still are, caffeine pills. I tried them once or twice and found myself so overwhelmed by the caffeine side effects that there was no benefit. I guess I was lucky in that way.
While the young British student is expected to make a partial to full recovery with ongoing treatment, the article got me thinking about the ICD-10 codes for congestive heart failure . CHF is when the heart muscle doesnt pump blood to the rest of the body as it should. The condition is usually progressive, meaning most people arent cured, but rather managed with medication and lifestyle changes.
Rebecca Caux-Harry, CPC, is a professional fee coding specialist with 3M Health Information Systems.
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Matters Of The Heart: Fy2018 Code Changes Impacting Heart Failure
C. Matheson, RHIA, CCS CDI
Heart failure is a serious medical condition that an estimated 5.7 million Americans are diagnosed with. This is a condition that occurs when the heart muscle cannot pump enough blood and oxygen needed by the body to support the other organs. According to the Center for Disease Control, the national estimated cost to treat heart failure is nearly $31 billion each year. As new technology and advancements in treatment progresses, ICD-10-CM and PCS changes can keep up the pace to appropriately categorize and capture accurate disease data. FY2018 ICD-10-CM code changes brought forth an onslaught of new and revised codes. One diagnosis category to receive updates and new expansion is in Heart Failure. This brief article will discuss the high level changes impacting heart failure coding.
A new subcategory was created to uniquely identify several different types of heart failure. I50.8, Other Heart Failure, was created to delineate other very specific cases of heart failure, such as these below:
- I50.810 Right heart failure, unspecified
- I50.811 Acute right heart failure
- I50.812 Chronic right heart failure
- I50.813 Acute on chronic right heart failure
- I50.814 Right heart failure due to left heart failure
- I50.82 Biventricular heart failure
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Chronic Systolic Heart Failure
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Billable/Specific Code
- I50.22 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM I50.22 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I50.22 – other international versions of ICD-10 I50.22 may differ.
- Applicable To annotations, or
Determine The Cause Of Heart Failure
One of the most important things you understand, when coding for heart failure, is that there can be many very different reasons why somebody can develop heart failure, and the ICD-10-CM coding system, as complex as it is, allows for very fine granuation in this respect. Therefore, your first decision to make, when looking for a code to use, is to determine, from the note, what is the underlying cause for heart failure. To illustrate, I am listing a few of the more common ICD-10 codes for heart failure based on cause:
- I11.0 Hypertensive heart disease with heart failure
- I09.81 Rheumatic heart failure
- I97.131 Postprocedural heart failure following other surgery
- I97.130 Postprocedural heart failure following cardiac surgery
- I13.0 Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease with heart failure and stage 1 through stage 4 chronic kidney disease, or unspecified chronic kidney disease
- P29.0 Neonatal cardiac failure
Note that none of the above conditions where heart failure is present use the root I50 for buidling the ICD-10 code.
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Drg Mapping Rules For I5023
Diagnostic codes are the first step in the DRG mapping process.
The patient’s primary diagnostic code is the most important. Assuming the patient’s primary diagnostic code is I50.23, look in the list below to see which MDC’s “Assignment of Diagnosis Codes” is first. That is the MDC that the patient will be grouped into.
From there, check the subsections of the MDC listed. The patient will be mapped into the first subsection for which the treatment performed on the patient meet the listed requirements of that subsection.
DRG grouping rules are adjusted each year, so make sure to check the rules for the fiscal year of the patient’s discharge date.
Coding For Congestive Heart Failure
April 23, 2021 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
I was reading an article the other day about a young man who developed severe biventricular heart failure after consuming a large quantity of an energy drink every day for 2 years. I remember my days as a college student and the need to be mentally alert for my classes and studies. We didnt have energy drinks at that time, but there were, and still are, caffeine pills. I tried them once or twice and found myself so overwhelmed by the caffeine side effects that there was no benefit. I guess I was lucky in that way.
While the young British student is expected to make a partial to full recovery with ongoing treatment, the article got me thinking about the ICD-10 codes for congestive heart failure . CHF is when the heart muscle doesnt pump blood to the rest of the body as it should. The condition is usually progressive, meaning most people arent cured, but rather managed with medication and lifestyle changes.
When I first started coding, we only had 3 ICD-9 codes for CHF: 428.0, 428.1 and 428.9. A few years later, those codes were expanded with specificity for acuity and type . Now, with ICD-10 we have a wide variety of codes to choose from, but as always, selection of the most accurate and specific code depends entirely on the physicians documentation.
Rebecca Caux-Harry, CPC, is a professional fee coding specialist with 3M Health Information Systems.
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Unspecified Systolic Heart Failure
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Billable/Specific Code
I50.21 Acute systolic heart failure
Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.
Acute Systolic Heart Failure
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Billable/Specific Code
- I50.21 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM I50.21 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I50.21 – other international versions of ICD-10 I50.21 may differ.
- Applicable To annotations, or
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Diseases Of The Circulatory Systemtype 2 Excludes
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
Code First
- 20162017201820192020202120222023Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
Applicable To
- end stage heart failure, if applicable
- combined systolic and diastolic heart failure
- Acute systolic heart failure