ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J90-J94 › J93.8 Other pneumothorax and air leak › J93.82
Other air leak
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 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other air leak
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 J93 Pneumothorax and air leak
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital or perinatal pneumothorax (P25.1)
- postprocedural air leak (J95.812)
- postprocedural pneumothorax (J95.811)
- traumatic pneumothorax (S27.0)
- tuberculous (current disease) pneumothorax (A15.-)
- pyopneumothorax (J86.-)
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.
- Leak, leakage > air NEC
- Leak, leakage > device, implant or graft > persistent air
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J93.81 | Chronic pneumothorax | Valid |
| J93.83 | Other pneumothorax | Valid |