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J05

Acute obstructive laryngitis [croup] and epiglottitis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • J05.0 Acute obstructive laryngitis [croup]
  • J05.1 Acute epiglottitis (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Acute obstructive laryngitis [croup] and epiglottitis

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.

This code

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)