ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B35-B49 › B44 Aspergillosis › B44.9
Aspergillosis, unspecified
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 Aspergillosis, unspecified
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 B44 Aspergillosis
Code also
- , if applicable:
- aspergilloma of other site - code to chronic infection of site
- pulmonary aspergilloma (J4B)
- pulmonary aspergillosis fungal ball (J4B)
- pulmonary mycetoma (J4B)
- sinus aspergilloma (J32.-)
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.
- Congestive
- Aspergillus
- Pneumonitis
- Aspergilloma
- Cold > chest
- Cold > on lung
- Pleuropneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
- Cold > bronchial
- Bronchopulmonitis
- Tracheobronchitis
- Bronchopneumonitis
- Pneumonia > patchy
- Pneumonia > diffuse
- Pneumonia > lobular
- Effusion > bronchial
- Bronchitis > croupous
- Bronchitis > subacute
- Pneumonia > catarrhal
- Pneumonia > confluent
- Bronchitis > capillary
- Bronchitis > exudative
- Bronchopleuropneumonia
- Irritation > bronchial
- Pneumonia > multilobar
- Laryngotracheobronchitis
- Pneumonia > disseminated
- Catarrh, catarrhal > lung
- Catarrh, catarrhal > chest
- Bronchitis > catarrhal > acute
- Catarrh, catarrhal > bronchial
- Catarrh, catarrhal > pulmonary
- Pneumopleurisy, pneumopleuritis
- Pneumonia > basal, basic, basilar
- Bronchitis > under l5 years of age
- Congestion, congestive > pulmonary
- Stasis > bronchus > with infection
- Irritable, irritability > bronchial
- Infection, infected, infective > lung
- Bronchiolitis > due to > external agent
Showing 40 of 56 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B44.0 | Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis | Valid |
| B44.1 | Other pulmonary aspergillosis | Valid |
| B44.2 | Tonsillar aspergillosis | Valid |
| B44.7 | Disseminated aspergillosis | Valid |
| B44.8 | Other forms of aspergillosis | Not billable |