ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J90-J94 › J94 Other pleural conditions › J94.1
Fibrothorax
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 Fibrothorax
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 J94 Other pleural conditions
Excludes1 - never coded here
- pleurisy NOS (R09.1)
- traumatic hemopneumothorax (S27.2)
- traumatic hemothorax (S27.1)
- tuberculous pleural conditions (current disease) (A15.-)
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.
- Fibrothorax
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > pleura
- Fibrin > ball or bodies, pleural
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J94.0 | Chylous effusion | Valid |
| J94.2 | Hemothorax | Valid |
| J94.8 | Other specified pleural conditions | Valid |
| J94.9 | Pleural condition, unspecified | Valid |