I97.710

I97.710: Intraoperative cardiac arrest during cardiac surgery

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

I97.710 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for intraoperative cardiac arrest during cardiac surgery. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I97.710

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

Written on I97.7: Intraoperative cardiac functional disturbances

acute pulmonary insufficiency following thoracic surgery (J95.1)
postprocedural cardiac functional disturbances (I97.1-)

Written on I97: Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of circulatory system, not elsewhere classified

postprocedural shock (T81.1-)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

I97.710 is named in 6 Medicare coverage policies: 6 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
A57306Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Complication›intraoperative›cardiac arrest›during cardiac surgery

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under I97.71

I97.711Intraoperative cardiac arrest during other surgery