ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J09-J18 › J15.21 Pneumonia due to staphylococcus aureus › J15.211
Pneumonia due to Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
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 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Pneumonia due to Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
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 J15 Bacterial pneumonia, not elsewhere classified
Excludes1 - never coded here
- chlamydial pneumonia (J16.0)
- congenital pneumonia (P23.-)
- Legionnaires' disease (A48.1)
- spirochetal pneumonia (A69.8)
Code first
- , if applicable, associated influenza (J09.X1, J10.0-, J11.0-)
Code also
- , if applicable, any associated condition such as:
- abscess (J85.1)
- aspiration pneumonia (J69.-)
Includes
- bronchopneumonia due to bacteria other than S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae
Inherited from the J09-J18 section Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18)
Excludes2 - not included here
- allergic or eosinophilic pneumonia (J82)
- aspiration pneumonia NOS (J69.0)
- meconium pneumonia (P24.01)
- neonatal aspiration pneumonia (P24.-)
- pneumonia due to solids and liquids (J69.-)
- congenital pneumonia (P23.9)
- lipid pneumonia (J69.1)
- rheumatic pneumonia (I00)
- ventilator associated pneumonia (J95.851)
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
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
- Pneumonitis
- Cold > chest
- Cold > on lung
- Pleuropneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
- Cold > bronchial
- Bronchopulmonitis
- Hepatization lung
- Tracheobronchitis
- Bronchopneumonitis
- Consolidation lung
- Pneumonia > patchy
- Pneumonia > diffuse
- Pneumonia > lobular
- Pneumonia > massive
- Effusion > bronchial
- Pneumonia > alveolar
- Pneumonia > croupous
- Bronchitis > croupous
- Bronchitis > subacute
- Pneumonia > catarrhal
- Pneumonia > confluent
- Pneumonia > fibrinous
- Bronchitis > capillary
- Bronchitis > exudative
- Bronchopleuropneumonia
- Irritation > bronchial
- Pleurobronchopneumonia
- Pneumonia > multilobar
- Pneumonia > pleurolobar
- Laryngotracheobronchitis
- Pneumonia > apex, apical
- Pneumonia > disseminated
- Catarrh, catarrhal > lung
- Tracheobronchopneumonitis
- Catarrh, catarrhal > chest
- Bronchitis > catarrhal > acute
- Catarrh, catarrhal > bronchial
- Catarrh, catarrhal > pulmonary
Showing 40 of 68 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J15.212 | Pneumonia due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Valid |