427.5In the United States, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-9) assigned the unique numeric code 427.5 to represent “cardiac arrest”.
Postprocedural cardiac arrest following other surgery I97. 121 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 I97. 121 became effective on October 1, 2021.
Code 427.5, Cardiac arrest, may be used as a secondary code in the following instances: 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.
ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The ICD-9 was used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates until 1999, when use of ICD-10 for mortality coding started.
ICD-10 Code for Personal history of transient ischemic attack (TIA), and cerebral infarction without residual deficits- Z86. 73- Codify by AAPC.
Causes of Death in Cardiogenic Shock and Cardiac Arrest The causes and predictors of death differ between CS and CA: ABI is the primary cause of death in patients with CA, whereas CS patients typically die via refractory shock, organ failure, and arrhythmias.
The cardiogenic shock code is still a “symptom” code that is not usually reported if the underlying cause is stated. If the cardiogenic shock leads to cardiac arrest, then it makes sense that only the cardiac arrest code would be reported.
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.
Hospital staff may call a code blue if a patient goes into cardiac arrest, has respiratory issues, or experiences any other medical emergency. Hospitals typically have rapid response teams ready to go when they get notified about a code blue.
ICD-9 uses mostly numeric codes with only occasional E and V alphanumeric codes. Plus, only three-, four- and five-digit codes are valid. ICD-10 uses entirely alphanumeric codes and has valid codes of up to seven digits.
CMS will continue to maintain the ICD-9 code website with the posted files. These are the codes providers (physicians, hospitals, etc.) and suppliers must use when submitting claims to Medicare for payment.
The International Classification of Diseases Clinical Modification, 9th Revision (ICD-9 CM) is a list of codes intended for the classification of diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease.