ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J96-J99 › J98 Other respiratory disorders › J98.9
Respiratory disorder, unspecified
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 Respiratory disorder, unspecified
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.
- Arthropyosis
- Cold > chest
- Pyoarthrosis
- Cold > on lung
- Fibroid > lung
- Septic > joint
- Abscess > joint
- Cold > bronchial
- Granuloma > lung
- Tracheobronchitis
- Fibroid > pneumonia
- Effusion > bronchial
- Bronchitis > croupous
- Bronchitis > subacute
- Pneumonia > cirrhotic
- Pneumonitis > chronic
- Bronchitis > exudative
- Irritation > bronchial
- Pyemia, pyemic > joint
- Fibroid > disease, lung
- Laryngotracheobronchitis
- Pyarthritis, pyarthrosis
- Catarrh, catarrhal > lung
- Pleuropneumonia > chronic
- Bronchiolitis > obliterans
- Catarrh, catarrhal > chest
- Fibroid > induration, lung
- Pneumonia > parenchymatous
- Pneumonia > lobar > chronic
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > lung
- Induration, indurated > lung
- Pneumonia > fibroid, fibrous
- Arthritis, arthritic > septic
- Bronchitis > catarrhal > acute
- Catarrh, catarrhal > bronchial
- Catarrh, catarrhal > pulmonary
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > pulmonary
- Arthritis, arthritic > purulent
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > pulmonary
- Suppuration, suppurative > joint
Showing 40 of 78 index phrases.
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 |
| J98.8 | Other specified respiratory disorders | Valid |