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I00

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Rheumatic fever without heart involvement

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

Acute rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease that can develop after a strep throat infection, affecting joints and other tissues but not the heart.

Coding Tips

  • •This code is used only when rheumatic fever is present without cardiac involvement; if heart involvement exists, use codes I01.0-I01.9 instead
  • •Document evidence of preceding streptococcal infection and clinical manifestations such as polyarthritis or chorea

Includes

  • arthritis, rheumatic, acute or subacute

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • rheumatic fever with heart involvement (I01.0 -I01.9)

Code Hierarchy

└I00Rheumatic fever without heart involvement
└I00Rheumatic fever without heart involvement

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