Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM

I72

I72.0 Aneurysm of carotid artery

BillableNo payment HCCChapter 9

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.-)

I72

Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
  • acquired aneurysm (I77.0)
  • aneurysm (of) aorta (I71.-)
  • aneurysm (of) arteriovenous NOS (Q27.3-)
  • carotid artery dissection (I77.71)
  • cerebral (nonruptured) aneurysm (I67.1)
  • coronary aneurysm (I25.4)
  • coronary artery dissection (I25.42)
  • dissection of artery NEC (I77.79)
  • dissection of precerebral artery, congenital (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
  • heart aneurysm (I25.3)
  • iliac artery dissection (I77.72)
  • precerebral artery, congential (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
  • pulmonary artery aneurysm (I28.1)
  • renal artery dissection (I77.73)
  • retinal aneurysm (H35.0)
  • ruptured cerebral aneurysm (I60.7)
  • varicose aneurysm (I77.0)
  • vertebral artery dissection (I77.74)
Includes
  • aneurysm (cirsoid) (false) (ruptured)

This code

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • aneurysm of internal carotid artery, intracranial portion (I67.1)
  • aneurysm of internal carotid artery NOS (I67.1)
Inclusion terms
  • Aneurysm of common carotid artery
  • Aneurysm of external carotid artery
  • Aneurysm of internal carotid artery, extracranial portion

Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system · I70-I79 Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries (I70-I79)

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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