ICD-10-CM Codes
J00-J99 Diseases of the respiratory system
J90-J94 Other diseases of the pleura
J94- Other pleural conditions

2020 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code J94.9

Pleural condition, unspecified

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2017

2018

2019

2020

Billable/Specific Code

J94.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The 2020 edition of ICD-10-CM J94.9 became effective on October 1, 2019.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of J94.9 - other international versions of ICD-10 J94.9 may differ.

The following code(s) above J94.9 contain annotation back-references

Annotation Back-References

In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:

Applicable To annotations, or
Code Also annotations, or
Code First annotations, or
Excludes1 annotations, or
Excludes2 annotations, or
Includes annotations, or
Note annotations, or
Use Additional annotations

that may be applicable to J94.9:

J00-J99
2020 ICD-10-CM Range J00-J99
Diseases of the respiratory system
Note
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).
Type 2 Excludes
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Use Additional
- code, where applicable, 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)
Diseases of the respiratory system
J94
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code J94
Other pleural conditions
Type 1 Excludes
- pleurisy NOS (R09.1)
- traumatic hemopneumothorax (S27.2)
- traumatic hemothorax (S27.1)
- tuberculous pleural conditions (current disease) (A15.-)
Other pleural conditions

Approximate Synonyms

Disorder of pleura
Pleural disease

ICD-10-CM J94.9 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v37.0):

193 Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc
194 Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with cc
195 Simple pneumonia and pleurisy without cc/mcc

Convert J94.9 to ICD-9-CM

Code History

2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to J94.9:

Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
- pleura (cavity) J94.9

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To J94.9

J93.8 Other pneumothorax and air leak

J93.81 Chronic pneumothorax

J93.82 Other air leak

J93.83 Other pneumothorax

J93.9 Pneumothorax, unspecified

J94 Other pleural conditions

J94.0 Chylous effusion

J94.1 Fibrothorax

J94.2 Hemothorax

J94.8 Other specified pleural conditions

J94.9 Pleural condition, unspecified

J95 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified

J95.0 Tracheostomy complications

J95.00 Unspecified tracheostomy complication

J95.01 Hemorrhage from tracheostomy stoma

J95.02 Infection of tracheostomy stoma

J95.03 Malfunction of tracheostomy stoma

J95.04 Tracheo-esophageal fistula following tracheostomy

J95.09 Other tracheostomy complication

J95.1 Acute pulmonary insufficiency following thoracic surgery

J95.2 Acute pulmonary insufficiency following nonthoracic surgery

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.

2020 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code J94.9

Pleural condition, unspecified

Diseases of the respiratory system

Other pleural conditions