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J04.2
Billable

Acute laryngotracheitis

Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system

Inclusion Terms

2 items
  • Laryngotracheitis NOS
  • Tracheitis (acute) with laryngitis (acute)

Excludes1

1 item
  • acute obstructive laryngotracheitis (J05.0)

Excludes2

1 item
  • chronic laryngotracheitis (J37.1)

Billable Code

J04.2 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes1

1 item

From J04:

  • acute obstructive laryngitis [croup] and epiglottitis (J05.-)

Excludes2

10 items

From J00-J99:

  • 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)

From J04:

  • laryngismus (stridulus) (J38.5)

Use Additional Code

8 items

From J00-J99:

  • 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)

From J04:

  • code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.

Notes

1 item

From J00-J99:

  • 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).
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