ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J95 › J95.85 Complication of respirator [ventilator] › J95.851
Ventilator associated pneumonia
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Ventilator associated pneumonia
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.
- Congestive
- Pneumonitis
- Cold > chest
- Cold > on lung
- Pleuropneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
- Cold > bronchial
- Bronchopulmonitis
- Tracheobronchitis
- Bronchopneumonitis
- Pneumonia > patchy
- Pneumonia > diffuse
- Pneumonia > lobular
- Effusion > bronchial
- Bronchitis > croupous
- Bronchitis > subacute
- Pneumonia > catarrhal
- Pneumonia > confluent
- Bronchitis > capillary
- Bronchitis > exudative
- Bronchopleuropneumonia
- Irritation > bronchial
- Pneumonia > multilobar
- Laryngotracheobronchitis
- Pneumonia > disseminated
- Catarrh, catarrhal > lung
- Catarrh, catarrhal > chest
- Bronchitis > catarrhal > acute
- Catarrh, catarrhal > bronchial
- Catarrh, catarrhal > pulmonary
- Pneumopleurisy, pneumopleuritis
- Pneumonia > basal, basic, basilar
- Bronchitis > under l5 years of age
- Congestion, congestive > pulmonary
- Stasis > bronchus > with infection
- Irritable, irritability > bronchial
- Infection, infected, infective > lung
- Bronchiolitis > due to > external agent
- Bronchospasm > with > bronchitis, acute
- Bronchitis > in those under l5 years age
Showing 40 of 53 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J95.850 | Mechanical complication of respirator | Valid |
| J95.859 | Other complication of respirator [ventilator] | Valid |