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J95.862

Postprocedural seroma of a respiratory system organ or structure following a respiratory system procedure

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

  1. FY2017 Added to the code set Postprocedural seroma of a respiratory system organ or structure following a respiratory system procedure

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
J95.860 Postprocedural hematoma of a respiratory system organ or structure following a respiratory system procedure Valid
J95.861 Postprocedural hematoma of a respiratory system organ or structure following other procedure Valid
J95.863 Postprocedural seroma of a respiratory system organ or structure following other procedure Valid