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I77.5 ICD-10-CM Code: Necrosis of artery

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
3 Excludes2
Risk adjustment
CMS-HCC V22 category 108

Billable · FY2027A valid, specific ICD-10-CM code, reportable for dates of service in FY2027.

What you need to know

Source: CMS/NCHS Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes, quoted. From the CMS/NCHS tabular list for the release in force. A note the category or block publishes applies to this code too; the Instructions section marks which is which.

Excludes2Not included here; may be reported together
  • collagen (vascular) diseases (M30-M36)
  • hypersensitivity angiitis (M31.0)
  • pulmonary artery (I28.-)

Most relevant related codes MedCoder-derived

Read off the official notes above and this code’s own position in the tabular list. Which to report is a documentation question; Compare shows the two side by side.

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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 v44, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 299 — PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 05)
  • MS-DRG 300 — PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISORDERS WITH CC (MDC 05)
  • MS-DRG 301 — PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISORDERS 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 I77.5 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2027Effective: October 1, 2026

Trace:FY2027 changesChange historyRelease, file and checksum

Notes without a marker are published on I77.5 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

Source: inherited from I77

Coder workflow for I77.5

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

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

  • Excludes2 — not part of I77.5(3 notes)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in I77.5. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareM31.0, I28

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

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.

Coding context

The comparisons, hierarchy, index entries, guidelines, relationships, risk-adjustment and coverage context a coder commonly needs. Each section names whether it is official source data, a MedCoder-derived relationship or MedCoder editorial.

Don’t confuse I77.5 with…

MedCoder analysis — pairs from this code’s official notes, distinctions written by MedCoder

The codes most likely to be picked instead of I77.5 — named in its own official notes, or sharing its laterality or encounter family — with what separates them and which documentation moves the case. Each links to the full comparison.

  • I77.6— Specificity relationship (Review)

    Overlapping diagnoses in the same category.

    Overlapping codes in the same category — the documentation decides which is the more specific fit.

    What moves you there: A record that documents no more than “Arteritis, unspecified” takes I77.6; specificity in the record moves it back here.

    Full comparison: I77.5 vs I77.6 →

  • M30— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of collagen (vascular) diseases adds M30; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: I77.5 vs M30 →

  • M36— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of collagen (vascular) diseases adds M36; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: I77.5 vs M36 →

  • M31.0— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of hypersensitivity angiitis adds M31.0; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: I77.5 vs M31.0 →

  • I28— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of pulmonary artery adds I28; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: I77.5 vs I28 →

Relationships are read from this code's own official notes, its laterality siblings and its encounter family; the wording of each distinction is MedCoder editorial, and the documentation named in each “what moves you there” line is the official note phrase or sibling title itself. Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a.

Code Overview

Necrosis of artery is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (I77.5).

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 (2)

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.

Verify Before Coding

  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2027). 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-derived relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2027)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2027 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 3 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 3 MS-DRGs: DRG 299 (MDC 05), DRG 300 (MDC 05), DRG 301 (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):CIR032 — Other specified and unspecified circulatory 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.

M31.8 — Other specified necrotizing vasculopathies, M31.9 — Necrotizing vasculopathy, unspecified

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Other specified and unspecified circulatory disease).

E13.51 — Other specified diabetes mellitus with diabetic peripheral angiopathy without gangrene, E83.820 — Generalized arterial calcification of infancy with unspecified genetic causality, E83.821 — ENPP1 deficiency causing generalized arterial calcification of infancy, E83.823 — ABCC6 deficiency causing generalized arterial calcification of infancy, E83.825 — CD73 deficiency causing arterial calcification, I77.0 — Arteriovenous fistula, acquired, I77.1 — Stricture of artery, I77.2 — Rupture of artery, I77.3 — Arterial fibromuscular dysplasia, I77.4 — Celiac artery compression syndrome, I77.6 — Arteritis, unspecified, I77.810 — Thoracic aortic ectasia, I77.811 — Abdominal aortic ectasia, I77.812 — Thoracoabdominal aortic ectasia, I77.819 — Aortic ectasia, unspecified site, I77.82 — Antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody [ANCA] vasculitis, I77.89 — Other specified disorders of arteries and arterioles, I77.9 — Disorder of arteries and arterioles, unspecified, I78.0 — Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, I78.1 — Nevus, non-neoplastic, +13 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

D73.5 — Infarction of spleen (spleen), E23.0 — Hypopituitarism (pituitary), E27.49 — Other adrenocortical insufficiency (adrenal), E32.8 — Other diseases of thymus (thymus), G95.19 — Other vascular myelopathies (spine, spinal, cord), H15.89 — Other disorders of sclera (sclera), H18.89 — Other specified disorders of cornea (cornea), I21.4 — Non-ST elevation (NSTEMI) myocardial infarction (subendocardial), I25.89 — Other forms of chronic ischemic heart disease (subendocardial, chronic), I67.89 — Other cerebrovascular disease (brain), I96 — Gangrene, not elsewhere classified (skin or subcutaneous tissue NEC), J02.9 — Acute pharyngitis, unspecified (pharynx), J32.0 — Chronic maxillary sinusitis (antrum), J32.2 — Chronic ethmoidal sinusitis (ethmoid), J34.0 — Abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of nose (nose), J35.8 — Other chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (tonsil), J38.7 — Other diseases of larynx (larynx), J39.8 — Other specified diseases of upper respiratory tract (trachea), J85.0 — Gangrene and necrosis of lung (lung), J98.09 — Other diseases of bronchus, not elsewhere classified (bronchus), +35 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of I77.5 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.

Hierarchy

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. 15,708 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2027

Index entries

  • Arteriolitis, necrotizing, kidney[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic), artery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027

Nearest codes (26)

Change history

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

Deep reference

Published questions and FAQ, every source behind this page with its release and checksum, the date-of-service check and the complete change history.

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 FY2027 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2026 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v44.0 (October 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 — v44 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-derived 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 editorial 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.

Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 20, 2026 · All releases and sources

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MedCoder.ai. "I77.5 — Necrosis of artery." ICD-10-CM FY2027. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/i77.5-necrosis-of-artery

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Necrosis of artery

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

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