Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM

I27 › I27.2

I27.29 Other secondary pulmonary hypertension

BillableCMS-HCC V28: HCC 226Chapter 9
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Instructional notes

Chapter 9

Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)

I27.2

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • Eisenmenger's syndrome (I27.83)
Code also
  • associated underlying condition

This code

Code also
  • other associated disorders, if known, such as:
  • chronic myeloid leukemia (C92.10-C92.22)
  • essential thrombocythemia (D47.3)
  • Gaucher disease (E75.22)
  • hypertensive chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease (I12.0, I13.11, I13.2)
  • hyperthyroidism (E05.-)
  • hypothyroidism (E00-E03)
  • polycythemia vera (D45)
  • sarcoidosis (D86.-)
Inclusion terms
  • Group 5 pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonary hypertension with unclear multifactorial mechanisms
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to hematologic disorders
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to metabolic disorders
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to other systemic disorders

Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system · I26-I28 Pulmonary heart disease and diseases of pulmonary circulation (I26-I28)

Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.

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