2011 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 428
Heart failure
- inability of the heart to pump blood at an adequate rate to fill tissue metabolic requirements or the ability to do so only at an elevated filling pressure.
- Inability of the heart to pump blood at an adequate rate to meet tissue metabolic requirements or the ability to do so only at an elevated filling pressure.
- There are 6 ICD-9-CM codes below 428 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2011 version of ICD-9-CM 428.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 428: 2012 2013.
428 Excludes 
)ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 428:
heart, functional (conditions classifiable to 
due to presence of (cardiac) prosthesis 
