ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J00-J06 › J04.1 Acute tracheitis › J04.10
Acute tracheitis without obstruction
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 Acute tracheitis without obstruction
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 J04 Acute laryngitis and tracheitis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- acute obstructive laryngitis [croup] and epiglottitis (J05.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- laryngismus (stridulus) (J38.5)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.
Code also
- influenza, if present, such as:
- influenza due to identified novel influenza A virus with other respiratory manifestations (J09.X2)
- influenza due to other identified influenza virus with other respiratory manifestations (J10.1)
- influenza due to unidentified influenza virus with other respiratory manifestations (J11.1)
Inherited from the J00-J06 section Acute upper respiratory infections (J00-J06)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0)
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
- Congestion, congestive > trachea
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > trachea
- Tracheitis
- Tracheitis > acute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J04.11 | Acute tracheitis with obstruction | Valid |