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I09.89

I09.89Other specified rheumatic heart diseases

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

I09.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified rheumatic heart diseases. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Rheumatic disease of pulmonary valve

Other codes that can never be billed with I09.89

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at I09.89. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading I09.89 alone.

  • I37Nonrheumatic pulmonary valve disorders

Risk adjustment

I09.89 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

I09.89 is named in 18 Medicare coverage policies 18 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

  • A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
  • A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
  • A52868Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
  • A56423Billing and Coding: Cardiology Non-emergent Outpatient Stress Testing

How I09.89 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to I09.89.

  • Pancarditisrheumatic
  • Rheumaticchronic
  • Endocarditispulmonaryrheumatic(chronic) (inactive) (with chorea)
  • Hypertrophy, hypertrophiccardiacrheumatic(with chorea)
  • Arteritiscoronaryrheumaticchronic
  • Disease, diseasedheartrheumaticspecified NEC
  • Disease, diseasedpulmonaryvalverheumatic
  • Endocarditispulmonarywith rheumatic feverinactive or quiescent(with chorea)
  • Feverrheumaticinactive or quiescent withcardiac hypertrophy
  • Feverrheumaticinactive or quiescent withheart disease NEC
  • Hypertrophy, hypertrophiccardiacwith rheumatic feverinactive or quiescent(with chorea)
  • Insufficiency, insufficientpulmonaryvalverheumatic

Related codes at this level

Codes that share I09.8. If I09.89 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about I09.89

Is I09.89 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. I09.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does I09.89 sit in the tabular list?
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Chronic rheumatic heart diseases (I05-I09).
ICD-10-CMFY2026-Apr· effective April 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release — see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.