Z86.74
Z86.74: Personal history of sudden cardiac arrest
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z86.74 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for personal history of sudden cardiac arrest. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z86.74 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Personal history of sudden cardiac death successfully resuscitated
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z86.74
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Z86.74 is named in 20 Medicare coverage policies: 20 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56391Billing and Coding: Implantable Automatic Defibrillators
- A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
- A56602Billing and Coding: Cardiac Rhythm Device Evaluation
- A56730Billing and Coding: Respiratory Therapy and Oximetry Services
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Arrest, arrested›cardiac›personal history, successfully resuscitated
- Death›cardiac›personal history of
- History›personal›cardiac arrest, successfully resuscitated(death)
- History›personal›sudden cardiac arrest
- History›personal›sudden cardiac death successfully resuscitated
The condition this code belongs to
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.