ICD-10 code for HFpEF (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction)

The ICD-10-CM code for HFpEF (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction) is I50.30 (Unspecified diastolic (congestive) heart failure). The official index lists 3 more specific codes, so check the documentation for details such as type, cause, site or severity before settling on I50.30.

It is also searched as diastolic heart failure, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Within I50.3, choose I50.30 (Unspecified diastolic (congestive) heart failure) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: acute diastolic (congestive) heart failure (I50.31), chronic diastolic (congestive) heart failure (I50.32) and acute on chronic diastolic (congestive) heart failure (I50.33).

Code first: heart failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8), heart failure due to hypertension (I11.0), heart failure due to hypertension with chronic kidney disease (I13.-), heart failure following surgery (I97.13-) and 2 more.

As a secondary diagnosis it is a CC (complication or comorbidity), which can move an inpatient stay into the "with CC" MS-DRG of its family, unless the principal diagnosis excludes it.