I00
Rheumatic fever without heart involvement
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
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Excludes1
- rheumatic fever with heart involvement (I01.0 -I01.9)I01.0-I01.9I01.0-I01.9I01.0-I01.9
I00-I99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)G45.-
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
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Includes
- arthritis, rheumatic, acute or subacute
Index entries leading here 4
- Erythema, erythematous (infectional) (inflammation) L53.9
- Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) R50.9
- rheumatic (active) (acute) (chronic) (subacute) I00
- Pneumonia (acute) (double) (migratory) (purulent) (septic) (unresolved) J18.9
- Rheumatic (acute) (subacute)
- pneumonia I00
Medications 2
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.