ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J96-J99 › J98 Other respiratory disorders › J98.8
Other specified respiratory disorders
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 Other specified respiratory disorders
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.
- Node
- Icterus
- Swollen
- Cholemia
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Tumefaction
- Yellow > jaundice
- Virus, viral > infection
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Laryngitis > due to external agent
- Tracheitis > due to external agent
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Laryngotracheitis > due to external agent
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Laryngopharyngitis > due to external agent
- Tracheopharyngitis > due to external agent
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > respiratory, upper
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Pneumatocele > tension
- Decompensation > respiratory
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > chest
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > airway
- Infection, infected, infective > respiratory NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > respiratory
- Infection, infected, infective > virus, viral NOS > chest
- Infection, infected, infective > respiratory NEC > chronic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J98.0 | Diseases of bronchus, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| J98.1 | Pulmonary collapse | Not billable |
| J98.2 | Interstitial emphysema | Valid |
| J98.3 | Compensatory emphysema | Valid |
| J98.4 | Other disorders of lung | Valid |
| J98.5 | Diseases of mediastinum, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| J98.6 | Disorders of diaphragm | Valid |
| J98.9 | Respiratory disorder, unspecified | Valid |