AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2017 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes

Types of Acute Myocardial Infarction

The following changes have been made at category I21, Acute myocardial infarction, to align with a new clinical classification of myocardial infarctions: New inclusion terms added at codes I21.0 to I21.4, to clarify that these codes refer to type 1 myocardial infarctions New code created for unspecified acute myocardial infarction (I21.9) New subcategory (I21.A) added for other types of myocardial infarctions with code I21.A1, Myocardial infarction type 2, and code I21.A9, Other myocardial infarction type Codes from category I22, Subsequent ST elevation (STEMI) and non-ST elevation (NSTEMI) myocardial infarction, should not be assigned...

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