ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B35-B49 › B40 Blastomycosis › B40.1
Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from B40 Blastomycosis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- Brazilian blastomycosis (B41.-)
- keloidal blastomycosis (B48.0)
Inherited from the B35-B49 section Mycoses (B35-B49)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to organic dust (J67.-)
- mycosis fungoides (C84.0-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Infection, infected, infective > Blastomyces, blastomycotic
- Infection, infected, infective > Blastomyces, blastomycotic > dermatitidis
- Blastomycosis, blastomycotic > pulmonary > chronic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B40.0 | Acute pulmonary blastomycosis | Valid |
| B40.2 | Pulmonary blastomycosis, unspecified | Valid |
| B40.3 | Cutaneous blastomycosis | Valid |
| B40.7 | Disseminated blastomycosis | Valid |
| B40.8 | Other forms of blastomycosis | Not billable |
| B40.9 | Blastomycosis, unspecified | Valid |