T82.1
T82.1 — Mechanical complication of cardiac electronic device
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T82.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for mechanical complication of cardiac electronic device. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T82
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
T82.1 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.
Code to one of these instead T82.1
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T82. If T82.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- T82.0Mechanical complication of heart valve prosthesis
- T82.2Mechanical complication of coronary artery bypass graft and biological heart valve graft
- T82.3Mechanical complication of other vascular grafts
- T82.4Mechanical complication of vascular dialysis catheter
- T82.5Mechanical complication of other cardiac and vascular devices and implants
- T82.6Infection and inflammatory reaction due to cardiac valve prosthesis
- T82.7Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other cardiac and vascular devices, implants and grafts
- T82.8Other specified complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices, implants and grafts
- T82.9Unspecified complication of cardiac and vascular prosthetic device, implant and graft
Questions about T82.1
- Is T82.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T82.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T82.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88).