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J17

Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere

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

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • candidial pneumonia (B37.1)
  • chlamydial pneumonia (J16.0)
  • gonorrheal pneumonia (A54.84)
  • histoplasmosis pneumonia (B39.0-B39.2)
  • measles pneumonia (B05.2)
  • nocardiosis pneumonia (A43.0)
  • pneumocystosis (B59)
  • pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii (B59)
  • pneumonia due to Pneumocystis jirovecii (B59)
  • pneumonia in actinomycosis (A42.0)
  • pneumonia in anthrax (A22.1)
  • pneumonia in ascariasis (B77.81)
  • pneumonia in aspergillosis (B44.0-B44.1)
  • pneumonia in coccidioidomycosis (B38.0-B38.2)
  • pneumonia in cytomegalovirus disease (B25.0)
  • pneumonia in toxoplasmosis (B58.3)
  • rubella pneumonia (B06.81)
  • salmonella pneumonia (A02.22)
  • spirochetal infection NEC with pneumonia (A69.8)
  • tularemia pneumonia (A21.2)
  • typhoid fever with pneumonia (A01.03)
  • varicella pneumonia (B01.2)
  • whooping cough with pneumonia (A37 with fifth-character 1)

Code first

  • underlying disease, such as:
  • Q fever (A78)
  • rheumatic fever (I00)
  • schistosomiasis (B65.0-B65.9)

Code also

  • , if applicable, any associated condition such as:
  • abscess (J85.1)
  • aspiration pneumonia (J69.-)

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.

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