Sudden cardiac arrest is an emergency condition that is described by when the heart suddenly stops beating. Symptoms include a loss of consciousness, lightheadedness or dizziness, or a lack of pulse or breathing. Treatment includes trying to restore the heartbeat via defibrillation.
Cardiac Arrest Management: Part 1
The condition causing the cardiac arrest is sequenced first followed by code 427.5, Cardiac arrest. When cardiac arrest occurs during the course of hospitalization and the patient is resuscitated, code 427.5 may be used as a secondary code except as outlined in the exclusion note under category 427.
Personal history of sudden cardiac arrest Z86. 74 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM Z86. 74 became effective on October 1, 2021.
Z82. 41 - Family history of sudden cardiac death | ICD-10-CM.
79: Personal history of other diseases of the circulatory system.
ICD-10 Code for Family history of ischemic heart disease and other diseases of the circulatory system- Z82. 49- Codify by AAPC.
Z86. 79 - Personal history of other diseases of the circulatory system | ICD-10-CM.
Family history of sudden cardiac death Z82. 41 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM Z82. 41 became effective on October 1, 2021.
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ICD-Code E66* is a non-billable ICD-10 code used for healthcare diagnosis reimbursement of Overweight and Obesity. Its corresponding ICD-9 code is 278.
The patient's primary diagnostic code is the most important. Assuming the patient's primary diagnostic code is Z76. 89, look in the list below to see which MDC's "Assignment of Diagnosis Codes" is first.
ICD-Code I10 is a billable ICD-10 code used for healthcare diagnosis reimbursement of Essential (Primary) Hypertension. Its corresponding ICD-9 code is 401.
Billable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires medical coders to indicate whether or not a condition was present at the time of admission, in order to properly assign MS-DRG codes.
Z86.74 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of personal history of sudden cardiac arrest. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
Clinically undetermined. Provider unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive.
Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission. Yes. N. Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission. No. U. Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. No.
Z86.74 is a valid billable ICD-10 diagnosis code for Personal history of sudden cardiac arrest . It is found in the 2021 version of the ICD-10 Clinical Modification (CM) and can be used in all HIPAA-covered transactions from Oct 01, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021 .
DO NOT include the decimal point when electronically filing claims as it may be rejected. Some clearinghouses may remove it for you but to avoid having a rejected claim due to an invalid ICD-10 code, do not include the decimal point when submitting claims electronically. See also: Arrest, arrested. cardiac I46.9.
The cardiac arrest codes are found in I46. The options are I46.2, Cardiac arrest due to an underlying cardiac condition, I46.8, Cardiac arrest due to other underlying condition, and I46.9, Cardiac arrest, cause unspecified. I46.2 and I46.8 would be secondary diagnoses because if you establish the underlying cause, ...
The last facet of documenting the emergency department cardiac arrest is to be sure to take inventory of the resultant conditions. Did the patient fall and sustain fractures or lacerations? Were there fractured ribs from CPR? Are there sequelae such as coma or anoxic brain injury, respiratory failure or arrest, shock liver, acute kidney injury, etc.? Make precise, thorough, and exhaustive diagnoses with appropriate linkage.
If the patient dies during the admission, the cardiac arrest will not serve as a major complication or comorbidity (MCC).
There are approximately 350,000-400,000 cases of cardiac arrest arising outside of the hospital setting per year, and not all of these patients make it to the emergency department. The incidence in any given hospital on any given shift is somewhere between zero and what you see on TV medical shows.
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If the patient dies in-house from the cardiac arrest without attempt at resuscitation, such that the cardiac arrest is their terminal event, you do not code the arrest. The fact that the patient died in the hospital is embedded in their discharge status and there is an alternate mechanism to report inpatient deaths.
This intellectual exercise reminded me of debates I had previously about whether you code cardiac arrest in the hospital if the patient is not successfully resuscitated. For that, I and Coding Clinic have a definitive answer. If a patient sustains cardiac arrest in the hospital and you attempt (or are successful at) resuscitation, you code it and the procedures performed. If the patient dies during the admission, the cardiac arrest will not serve as a major complication or comorbidity (MCC).
I97- Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of circulatory system, not elsewhere classified
The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM I97.71 became effective on October 1, 2021.
Code 427.5, Cardiac arrest, may be used as a secondary code in the following instances:#N#The patient arrives in the hospital’s emergency service unit in a state of cardiac arrest and is resuscitated (and admitted) with the condition prompting the cardiac arrest known, such as ventricular tachycardia or trauma. The condition causing the cardiac arrest is sequenced first followed by code 427.5, Cardiac arrest.#N#When cardiac arrest occurs during the course of hospitalization and the patient is resuscitated, code 427.5 may be used as a secondary code except as outlined in the exclusion note under category 427. 1 The patient arrives in the hospital’s emergency service unit in a state of cardiac arrest and is resuscitated (and admitted) with the condition prompting the cardiac arrest known, such as ventricular tachycardia or trauma. The condition causing the cardiac arrest is sequenced first followed by code 427.5, Cardiac arrest. 2 When cardiac arrest occurs during the course of hospitalization and the patient is resuscitated, code 427.5 may be used as a secondary code except as outlined in the exclusion note under category 427.
“Personal history of…” means these conditions are in the past, and more specifically, not directly impactful to the current admission.
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If the patient is freshly resuscitated and brought to the hospital, I don’t think the Z code would be appropriate, as the evaluation and care of the prehospital arrest is still in process. However, during subsequent admissions (or office visits, for that matter), the Z code would be entirely appropriate for use, as the acute episode of cardiac arrest precipitating the index admission to the hospital is resolved.
When cardiac arrest occurs during the course of hospitalization and the patient is resuscitated, code 427.5 may be used as a secondary code except as outlined in the exclusion note under category 427.
When the physician records cardiac arrest to indicate an inpatient death, do not assign code 427.5 when the underlying cause or contributing cause of death is known since the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) has a separate item for reporting deaths occurring during an inpatient stay.