ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J40-J4B › J41 Simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis › J41.1

J41.1

Mucopurulent chronic bronchitis

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 Mucopurulent chronic 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.

Inherited from J41 Simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis

Excludes2 - not included here

  • chronic bronchitis NOS (J42)
  • chronic obstructive bronchitis (J44.-)

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
  • exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)

Inherited from the J40-J4B section Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J4B)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • bronchitis due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors (J68.0)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • cystic fibrosis (E84.-)

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.

Showing 40 of 42 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
J41.0 Simple chronic bronchitis Valid
J41.8 Mixed simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis Valid