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J68.8

Other respiratory conditions due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors

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 Other respiratory conditions due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors

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 J68 Respiratory conditions due to inhalation of chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors

Use additional code

  • code to identify associated respiratory conditions, such as:
  • acute respiratory failure (J96.0-)

Code first

  • (T51-T65) to identify cause

Inherited from the J60-J70 section Lung diseases due to external agents (J60-J70)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • asthma (J45.-)
  • malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
J68.0 Bronchitis and pneumonitis due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors Valid
J68.1 Pulmonary edema due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors Valid
J68.2 Upper respiratory inflammation due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors, not elsewhere classified Valid
J68.3 Other acute and subacute respiratory conditions due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors Valid
J68.4 Chronic respiratory conditions due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors Valid
J68.9 Unspecified respiratory condition due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors Valid