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J69.0

Pneumonitis due to inhalation of food and vomit

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 Pneumonitis due to inhalation of food and vomit

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 J69 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • neonatal aspiration syndromes (P24.-)
  • postprocedural pneumonitis (J95.4)

Code also

  • , if applicable, other types of pneumonias, such as:
  • bacterial pneumonia (J13-J15.-)
  • viral pneumonia (J12.-)

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.

Showing 40 of 90 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
J69.1 Pneumonitis due to inhalation of oils and essences Valid
J69.8 Pneumonitis due to inhalation of other solids and liquids Valid