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I50.81

I50.81: Right heart failure

Non-billable headerICD-10-CMright

I50.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for right heart failure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

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

  • Right ventricular failure

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I50.81

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 I50.81

5 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under I50.8

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 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.