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J20

Acute bronchitis

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • J20.0 Acute bronchitis due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae
  • J20.1 Acute bronchitis due to Hemophilus influenzae
  • J20.2 Acute bronchitis due to streptococcus
  • J20.3 Acute bronchitis due to coxsackievirus
  • J20.4 Acute bronchitis due to parainfluenza virus
  • J20.5 Acute bronchitis due to respiratory syncytial virus
  • J20.6 Acute bronchitis due to rhinovirus
  • J20.7 Acute bronchitis due to echovirus
  • J20.8 Acute bronchitis due to other specified organisms
  • J20.9 Acute bronchitis, unspecified

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 bronchitis

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

  • bronchitis NOS (J40)
  • tracheobronchitis NOS (J40)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • acute bronchitis with bronchiectasis (J47.0)
  • acute bronchitis with chronic obstructive asthma (J44.0)
  • acute bronchitis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.0)
  • allergic bronchitis NOS (J45.909)
  • bronchitis due to chemicals, fumes and vapors (J68.0)
  • chronic bronchitis NOS (J42)
  • chronic mucopurulent bronchitis (J41.1)
  • chronic obstructive bronchitis (J44.-)
  • chronic obstructive tracheobronchitis (J44.-)
  • chronic simple bronchitis (J41.0)
  • chronic tracheobronchitis (J42)

Includes

  • acute and subacute bronchitis (with) bronchospasm
  • acute and subacute bronchitis (with) tracheitis
  • acute and subacute bronchitis (with) tracheobronchitis, acute
  • acute and subacute fibrinous bronchitis
  • acute and subacute membranous bronchitis
  • acute and subacute purulent bronchitis
  • acute and subacute septic bronchitis

Inherited from the J20-J22 section Other acute lower respiratory infections (J20-J22)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0)