Mediastinitis

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.

FY2017 Added to the code set Mediastinitis

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 J98 Other respiratory disorders

Excludes1 - never coded here

newborn apnea (P28.4-)
newborn sleep apnea (P28.3-)

Excludes2 - not included here

apnea NOS (R06.81)
sleep apnea (G47.3-)

Use additional code

code to identify:
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)

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.

Mediastinitis
Infection, infected, infective > mediastinum

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
J98.59	Other diseases of mediastinum, not elsewhere classified	Valid