Billable Medical Code for Malignant Hypertensive Heart Disease with Heart Failure Diagnosis Code for Reimbursement Claim: ICD-9-CM 402.01. Code will be replaced by October 2015 and relabeled as ICD-10-CM 402.01. The Short Description Is: Mal hypert hrt dis w hf. Known As
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ICD-9 Code 401.0 Malignant essential hypertension. ICD-9 Index; Chapter: 390–459; Section: 401-405; Block: 401 Essential hypertension; 401.0 - Malignant hypertension
2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 401.0 Malignant essential hypertension Short description: Malignant hypertension. ICD-9-CM 401.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 401.0 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015.
401.0 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of malignant essential hypertension. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
References found for the code 401.0 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls.
General Equivalence Map Definitions#N#The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.