AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2017 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes
Other Heart Failure
A new subcategory I50.8, Other heart failure, has been created and new codes developed to uniquely identify several different specific types of heart failure: 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 I50.83 High output heart failure I50.84 End stage heart failure The new codes will allow differentiating cases of pure right heart failure from left heart failure. Patients with right heart failure...
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