ICD-10 code for pulmonary hypertension

The ICD-10-CM code for pulmonary hypertension is I27.20 (Pulmonary hypertension, unspecified). The official index lists 23 more specific codes, so check the documentation for details such as type, cause, site or severity before settling on I27.20.

Within I27.2, choose I27.20 (Pulmonary hypertension, unspecified) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: secondary pulmonary arterial hypertension (I27.21), pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease (I27.22), pulmonary hypertension due to lung diseases and hypoxia (I27.23), chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (I27.24) and other secondary pulmonary hypertension (I27.29).

It is not a CC or MCC, so as a secondary diagnosis it doesn't change the MS-DRG severity level.

In MS-DRG v44.0, it is part of the grouping logic for DRG 314 (Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with MCC, relative weight 2.0873), DRG 315 (Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with CC, relative weight 0.9508) and DRG 316 (Other Circulatory System Diagnoses without CC/MCC, relative weight 0.6677), in MDC 05 (Diseases and Disorders of the Circulatory System), as a principal or secondary diagnosis. The DRG a claim lands in depends on the principal diagnosis, procedures and any CC/MCC secondary diagnoses.