October 1 update. Our PDGM and ICD-10 tools now use the FY2027 code set: 190 codes added, 30 deleted, and no existing code changed clinical group.

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ICD-10 · PDGM grouping

I00-I02 — Acute rheumatic fever

Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.2.26.

ICD-10-CM FY2027 · CMS grouper v07.2.26

Codes in range

8

No clinical group

0

A period cannot be grouped from these.

Barred as primary

0

CMS rejects these in the primary position.

Where these codes group

8 of the 8 codes in I00-I02 group to MMTA - Cardiac and Circulatory. Every code here is assigned a group.

Code families in I00-I02

One page per three-character family: every code in it, whether it can lead a claim, its clinical group and comorbidity subgroup.

Every code in I00-I02

Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.

CodeDescriptionClinical groupPrimary position
I00Rheumatic fever without heart involvementHCan lead a claim
I010Acute rheumatic pericarditisHCan lead a claim
I011Acute rheumatic endocarditisHCan lead a claim
I012Acute rheumatic myocarditisHCan lead a claim
I018Other acute rheumatic heart diseaseHCan lead a claim
I019Acute rheumatic heart disease, unspecifiedHCan lead a claim
I020Rheumatic chorea with heart involvementHCan lead a claim
I029Rheumatic chorea without heart involvementHCan lead a claim

Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective 2026-10-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.

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