B57.2
B57.2: Chagas' disease (chronic) with heart involvement
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
B57.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chagas' disease (chronic) with heart involvement. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check B57.2 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- American trypanosomiasis NOS
- Chagas' disease (chronic) NOS
- Chagas' disease (chronic) with myocarditis
- Trypanosomiasis NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with B57.2
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- I41Myocarditis in diseases classified elsewhere
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
B57.2 is named in 6 Medicare coverage policies: 6 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A56500Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Chagas'(-Mazza) disease (chronic)
- Cardiomyopathy›in›Chagas' disease(chronic)
- Chagas'›with›cardiovascular involvement NEC
- Chagas'›with›myocarditis
- Trypanosomiasis›where›Chagas' disease is prevalent
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.