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I97.711

I97.711Intraoperative cardiac arrest during other surgery

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

I97.711 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for intraoperative cardiac arrest during other surgery. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above I97.711

Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of I97.711, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.

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

I97.711 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

I97.711 is named in 8 Medicare coverage policies 8 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

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

How I97.711 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 I97.711.

  • Complicationintraoperativecardiac arrestduring other surgery

Code history

I97.711 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share I97.71. If I97.711 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about I97.711

Is I97.711 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. I97.711 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does I97.711 sit in the tabular list?
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99), in the block Other and unspecified disorders of the circulatory system (I95-I99).
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.