ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J40-J4B › J44 Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease › J44.9
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified
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 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified
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 J44 Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Excludes2 - not included here
- bronchiectasis (J47.-)
- chronic bronchitis NOS (J42)
- chronic simple and mucopurulent bronchitis (J41.-)
- chronic tracheitis (J42)
- chronic tracheobronchitis (J42)
- emphysema without chronic bronchitis (J43.-)
Code also
- type of asthma, if applicable (J45.-)
Includes
- asthma with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- chronic asthmatic (obstructive) bronchitis
- chronic bronchitis with airway obstruction
- chronic bronchitis with emphysema
- chronic emphysematous bronchitis
- chronic obstructive asthma
- chronic obstructive bronchitis
- chronic obstructive tracheobronchitis
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.
- copd
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Disease, diseased > pulmonary
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Disease, diseased > lung > obstructive
- Disease, diseased > airway > obstructive, chronic
- Disease, diseased > pulmonary > chronic obstructive
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > airway > chronic
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > respiratory > chronic
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > lung > disease, chronic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J44.0 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) lower respiratory infection | Valid |
| J44.1 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) exacerbation | Valid |
| J44.8 | Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Not billable |