428.0 CHF NOS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 428.0

Short Description: CHF NOS

Long Description: Congestive heart failure, unspecified

Code Classification:

  • Diseases of the circulatory system (390–459)
    • Other forms of heart disease (420-429)
      • 428 Heart failure
        • 428.0 CHF NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 428.0 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Anasarca 782.3
    • cardiac (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Ascites 789.59
    • cardiac 428.0
    • heart 428.0
  • Bernheim's syndrome (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Congestion, congestive
    • heart (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • cardiac (see also Insufficiency, myocardial) 428.0
    • myocardial (see also Insufficiency, myocardial) 428.0
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • heart (organic) 429.9
      • congestive (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Dropsy, dropsical (see also Edema) 782.3
    • cardiac (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
    • heart (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Dysfunction
    • ventricular 429.9
      • with congestive heart failure (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Edema, edematous 782.3
    • cardiac (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
    • cardiovascular (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
    • heart (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • newborn 779.89
    • lung 514
      • acute 518.4
        • with heart disease or failure (see also Failure, ventricular, left) 428.1
          • congestive 428.0
  • Failure, failed
    • congestive (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
    • heart (acute) (sudden) 428.9
      • with
        • acute pulmonary edema (see also Failure, ventricular, left) 428.1
          • with congestion (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
        • decompensation (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • combined left-right sided 428.0
      • compensated (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • congestive (compensated) (decompensated) (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
        • with rheumatic fever (conditions classifiable to 390)
          • active 391.8
          • inactive or quiescent (with chorea) 398.91
        • fetus or newborn 779.89
        • hypertensive (see also Hypertension, heart) 402.91
          • with renal disease (see also Hypertension, cardiorenal) 404.91
            • with renal failure 404.93
          • benign 402.11
          • malignant 402.01
        • rheumatic (chronic) (inactive) (with chorea) 398.91
          • active or acute 391.8
            • with chorea (Sydenham's) 392.0
      • decompensated (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • left (ventricular) (see also Failure, ventricular, left) 428.1
        • with right-sided failure (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • right (secondary to left heart failure, conditions classifiable to 428.1) (ventricular) (see also Failure, heart)� 428.0
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Failure, heart) 428.9
      • chronic (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
      • congestive (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
    • ventricular (see also Failure, heart) 428.9
      • right (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Fever 780.60
    • rheumatic (active) (acute) (chronic) (subacute) 390
      • inactive or quiescent with
        • heart conditions (classifiable to 429.3, 429.6, 429.9) 398.99
          • failure (congestive) (conditions classifiable to 428.0, 428.9) 398.91
  • Fluid
    • heart (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Hydrops 782.3
    • cardiac (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Impaired, impairment (function)
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Insufficiency, myocardial) 428.0
  • Insufficiency, insufficient
    • cardiac (see also Insufficiency, myocardial) 428.0
      • complicating surgery 997.1
      • due to presence of (cardiac) prosthesis 429.4
      • postoperative 997.1
        • long-term effect of cardiac surgery 429.4
      • specified during or due to a procedure 997.1
        • long-term effect of cardiac surgery 429.4
    • myocardial, myocardium (with arteriosclerosis) 428.0
      • with rheumatic fever (conditions classifiable to 390)
        • active, acute, or subacute 391.2
          • with chorea 392.0
        • inactive or quiescent (with chorea) 398.0
      • congenital 746.89
      • due to presence of (cardiac) prosthesis 429.4
      • fetus or newborn 779.89
      • following cardiac surgery 429.4
      • hypertensive (see also Hypertension, heart) 402.91
        • benign 402.11
        • malignant 402.01
      • postoperative 997.1
        • long-term effect of cardiac surgery 429.4
      • rheumatic 398.0
        • active, acute, or subacute 391.2
          • with chorea (Sydenham's) 392.0
      • syphilitic 093.82
  • Stasis
    • cardiac (see also Failure, heart) 428.0
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Bernheim's (see also Failure, heart) 428.0

Crosswalk Information

The code 428.0 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
428.0 Right Arrow I50.9 Heart failure, unspecified
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
428.1 Left heart failure
428.20 Systolic heart failure, unspecified
428.21 Acute systolic heart failure
428.22 Chronic systolic heart failure
428.23 Acute on chronic systolic heart failure
428.30 Diastolic heart failure, unspecified
428.31 Acute diastolic heart failure
428.32 Chronic diastolic heart failure
428.33 Acute on chronic diastolic heart failure
428.40 Combined systolic and diastolic heart failure, unspecified
428.41 Acute combined systolic and diastolic heart failure
428.42 Chronic combined systolic and diastolic heart failure
428.43 Acute on chronic combined systolic and diastolic heart failure
428.9 Heart failure, unspecified


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