I70.218 — Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, other extremity
I70.218 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, other extremity. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
I70.218 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
I70.218 is named in 40 Medicare coverage policies — 40 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
- A52996Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
- A56384Billing and Coding: Supervised Exercise Therapy for the Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease with Symptomatic Lower Extremity Intermittent Claudication
- A56423Billing and Coding: Cardiology Non-emergent Outpatient Stress Testing
How I70.218 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 I70.218.
- Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic›extremities›specified site NEC›with›intermittent claudication
Related codes at this level
Codes that share I70.21. If I70.218 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- I70.211Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, right leg
- I70.212Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, left leg
- I70.213Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, bilateral legs
- I70.219Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, unspecified extremity
Questions about I70.218
- Is I70.218 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. I70.218 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does I70.218 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries (I70-I79).