I50.2

I50.2: Systolic (congestive) heart failure

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

I50.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for systolic (congestive) heart failure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

combined systolic (congestive) and diastolic (congestive) heart failure (I50.4-)

Code also

Both codes may be needed to describe the encounter fully. Sequencing depends on the reason for the visit.

end stage heart failure, if applicable (I50.84)

Inclusion terms

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

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction [HFrEF]
Systolic left ventricular heart failure

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I50.2

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on I50: Heart failure

cardiac arrest (I46.-)
neonatal cardiac failure (P29.0)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead I50.2

4 child codes. Green means billable.