T82.22 — Mechanical complication of biological heart valve graft
T82.22 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for mechanical complication of biological heart valve graft. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with T82.22
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at T82.22. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading T82.22 alone.
- T82.0Mechanical complication of heart valve prosthesis
Risk adjustment
T82.22 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 T82.22
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T82.2. If T82.22 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about T82.22
- Is T82.22 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T82.22 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T82.22 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).