What NSVT ICD codes can I use?
If you’re looking for NSVT ICD codes, there’s only one that you can use: I47.20 - Ventricular tachycardia, unspecified. This ICD-10 code is meant to be used on a patient confirmed to have Ventricular Tachycardia, a heart rate higher than 120 beats per minute. These beats are in the ventricles.
The only reason why this is the only ICD-10 code that you can use for it is that there are only two other Tachycardia-related codes. They are specific to Supraventricular Tachycardia (I47.1) and Paroxysmal Tachycardia (I47.9). There’s also one for Torsades de Pointes (I47.21), a malignant polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.
If you see I47.29 (which is for Other ventricular tachycardia), you’d think it can be used for this, but this is for ventricular tachycardia types that aren’t covered by I47.20. 147.20 covers NSVT.
