I49.8
Other specified cardiac arrhythmias
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 15 never code together
I49code
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.-
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 7
Index entries leading here 10
- Sinus — see also Fistula
- arrhythmia I49.8
- Arrhythmia (auricle)(cardiac)(juvenile)(nodal)(reflex)(supraventricular)(transitory)(ventricle) I49.9
- Rhythm
- Bradyarrhythmia, cardiac I49.8
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Brugada I49.8
- Fibrillation
- Incompetency, incompetent, incompetence
- Flutter
- heart I49.8
- Nodal rhythm I49.8
- Wandering
- pacemaker (heart) I49.8
Alongside this code 7 same parent — I49
I49.0 Ventricular fibrillation and flutter category I49.1 Atrial premature depolarization I49.2 Junctional premature depolarization I49.3 Ventricular premature depolarization I49.4 Other and unspecified premature depolarization category I49.5 Sick sinus syndrome I49.9 Cardiac arrhythmia, unspecified
Medications 1
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.
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