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AMDA-IMIC

I30 Acute pericarditis

Category / Non-billable header 4 subcodes

Block: Other forms of heart disease (I30-I5A)

Includes

  • acute mediastinopericarditis
  • acute myopericarditis
  • acute pericardial effusion
  • acute pleuropericarditis
  • acute pneumopericarditis

Excludes 1 (cannot be coded together)

  • Dressler's syndrome (I24.1)
  • rheumatic pericarditis (acute) (I01.0)
  • viral pericarditis due to Coxsackie virus (B33.23)

Subcodes

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Code Description Billable
I30..0 Acute nonspecific idiopathic pericarditis Yes
I30..1 Infective pericarditis Yes
I30..8 Other forms of acute pericarditis Yes
I30..9 Acute pericarditis, unspecified Yes

Plain-language term for this code

The following entry in the US Medical Glossary corresponds to ICD-10-CM category I30:

Last reviewed: September 2026