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I51.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Cardiac septal defect, acquired

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
3 inclusion terms · 1 Excludes1 · 1 Excludes2

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 314 — OTHER CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH MCC (MDC 05)
  • MS-DRG 315 — OTHER CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH CC (MDC 05)
  • MS-DRG 316 — OTHER CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 05)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for I51.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on I51.0 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Acquired septal atrial defect (old)
  • Acquired septal auricular defect (old)
  • Acquired septal ventricular defect (old)

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Source: inherited from I51

Coder workflow for I51.0

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code I51.0

  1. Check the Excludes1 note: if the documentation supports a condition named there, do not simply proceed with I51.0. Excludes1 conditions are not reported together with this code unless the record shows they are unrelated (Guidelines I.A.12.a).

    See the official tabular notes

Choose the right path

  1. Does the documentation support a condition named in I51.0’s Excludes1 note?
    Yes → Do not simply proceed: review the excluded code. Both are reported only when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated.
    No → Continue.

    ReviewI23.1, I23.2

Consider I51.0. Then confirm the code is valid for the date of service in the Verify section.

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes1 — check before selecting I51.0(1 note)

    Coding workflow: If the documentation supports a condition named in this note, do not simply proceed with I51.0: the two are not reported together. The one exception is when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated to each other.

    CompareI23.1, I23.2

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.a

  • Excludes2 — not part of I51.0(1 note)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in I51.0. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.b

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: Both the condition I51.0 describes and a condition named in its Excludes1 note are documented for the same encounter.

Coding question: Can both codes be reported?

Path: Review the Excludes1 note and the excluded code, and look for a provider statement on whether the two conditions are related.

Reason: Excludes1 means the two are not coded together; the exception is when the record shows the conditions are unrelated to each other (Guidelines I.A.12.a).

ReviewI23.1, I23.2

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Code Overview

Cardiac septal defect, acquired is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (I51.0).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (1)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Official Coding Guidelines

Official source data — quoted verbatim from the CMS/NCHS Official Guidelines

Official source data — quoted verbatim from the CMS/NCHS Official Guidelines

Verbatim excerpts from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (CMS/NCHS) that govern this code.

Chapter 9: Diseases of the Circulatory System (I00 -I99)

1) Hypertension with Heart Disease Hypertension with heart conditions classified to I50.-, Heart failure, I51.4, Myocarditis, unspecified, I51.89, Other ill-defined heart diseases, and I51.9, Heart disease, unspecified, is assigned to a code from category I11, Hypertensive heart disease. Use additional code(s) from category I50, Heart failure, or I51, Complications and ill-defined descriptions of heart disease, to identify the heart condition.

Verify Before Coding

  • Age-restricted: the Medicare Code Editor lists this as an adult (age 15-124) diagnosis; other ages are presumed incorrect.
  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2026). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name I51.0 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 3 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: I23.1 — Atrial septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction, I23.2 — Ventricular septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction, Q21 — Congenital malformations of cardiac septa.

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: CC — Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 115 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 3 MS-DRGs: DRG 314 (MDC 05), DRG 315 (MDC 05), DRG 316 (MDC 05).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):CIR015 — Other and ill-defined heart disease (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical process (MS-DRG)

Acts as CC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

I23.6 — Thrombosis of atrium, auricular appendage, and ventricle as current complications following acute myocardial infarction, I23.7 — Postinfarction angina, I23.8 — Other current complications following acute myocardial infarction, I27.841 — Fontan-associated lymphatic dysfunction, I27.848 — Other Fontan-associated condition, I27.849 — Fontan related circulation, unspecified, I40.0 — Infective myocarditis, I40.1 — Isolated myocarditis, I40.8 — Other acute myocarditis, I40.9 — Acute myocarditis, unspecified, I51.1 — Rupture of chordae tendineae, not elsewhere classified, I51.2 — Rupture of papillary muscle, not elsewhere classified, I51.4 — Myocarditis, unspecified, I87.8 — Other specified disorders of veins, I87.9 — Disorder of vein, unspecified, I97.0 — Postcardiotomy syndrome, I97.110 — Postprocedural cardiac insufficiency following cardiac surgery, I97.111 — Postprocedural cardiac insufficiency following other surgery, I97.120 — Postprocedural cardiac arrest following cardiac surgery, I97.121 — Postprocedural cardiac arrest following other surgery, +94 more

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Other and ill-defined heart disease).

I25.3 — Aneurysm of heart, I25.41 — Coronary artery aneurysm, I51.1 — Rupture of chordae tendineae, not elsewhere classified, I51.2 — Rupture of papillary muscle, not elsewhere classified, I51.3 — Intracardiac thrombosis, not elsewhere classified, I51.5 — Myocardial degeneration, I51.7 — Cardiomegaly, I51.81 — Takotsubo syndrome, I51.89 — Other ill-defined heart diseases, I51.9 — Heart disease, unspecified, I52 — Other heart disorders in diseases classified elsewhere, I5A — Non-ischemic myocardial injury (non-traumatic), M05.30 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site, M05.311 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of right shoulder, M05.312 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of left shoulder, M05.319 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified shoulder, M05.321 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of right elbow, M05.322 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of left elbow, M05.329 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified elbow, M05.331 — Rheumatoid heart disease with rheumatoid arthritis of right wrist, +15 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main term “Defect, defective”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

H53.42 — Scotoma of blind spot area (visual field, localized, scotoma, blind spot area), H53.43 — Sector or arcuate defects (visual field, localized, sector), H53.45 — Other localized visual field defect (visual field, localized, specified type NEC), H53.46 — Homonymous bilateral field defects (visual field, bilateral, homonymous), H53.47 — Heteronymous bilateral field defects (visual field, bilateral, heteronymous), H53.48 — Generalized contraction of visual field (visual field, generalized contraction), H54.7 — Unspecified visual loss (vision NEC), I23.1 — Atrial septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction (atrial septal, following acute myocardial infarction), I23.2 — Ventricular septal defect as current complication following acute myocardial infarction (ventricular septal, following acute myocardial infarction), I45.9 — Conduction disorder, unspecified (conduction), I99.9 — Unspecified disorder of circulatory system (vascular), K00.5 — Hereditary disturbances in tooth structure, not elsewhere classified (dentin), K03.1 — Abrasion of teeth (teeth, wedge), K08.50 — Unsatisfactory restoration of tooth, unspecified (dental restoration), K08.59 — Other unsatisfactory restoration of tooth (dental restoration, specified NEC), M51.9 — Unspecified thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorder (intervertebral annular fibrosis), M51.A0 — Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, lumbar region, unspecified size (intervertebral annular fibrosis, lumbar), M51.A1 — Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, small, lumbar region (intervertebral annular fibrosis, lumbar, small), M51.A2 — Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, large, lumbar region (intervertebral annular fibrosis, lumbar, large), M51.A3 — Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, lumbosacral region, unspecified size (intervertebral annular fibrosis, lumbosacral), +100 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of I51.0 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Run I51.0 with these 3 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Excludes1

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 05 — Diseases and Disorders of the Circulatory System[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Circulatory System — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 17,209 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries

  • Defect, defective, septal NOS (heart), acquired (atrial) (auricular) (ventricular) (old)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (11)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Coding guidelines Official source data
ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (FY2026), quoted by section Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "I51.0 — Cardiac septal defect, acquired." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/i51.0-cardiac-septal-defect-acquired

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Cardiac septal defect, acquired

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to I51.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.

View all codes in the I51 family