ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J95 › J95.81 Postprocedural pneumothorax and air leak › J95.811
Postprocedural pneumothorax
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 Postprocedural pneumothorax
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 J95 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- aspiration pneumonia (J69.-)
- emphysema (subcutaneous) resulting from a procedure (T81.82)
- hypostatic pneumonia (J18.2)
- pulmonary manifestations due to radiation (J70.0-J70.1)
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.
- Complication > surgical procedure > respiratory
- Complication > postoperative > respiratory system
- Disorder > respiratory function, impaired > postprocedural
- Pneumothorax NOS > postprocedural
- Complication > respiratory system > postoperative > pneumothorax
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J95.812 | Postprocedural air leak | Valid |