J06.9Billable
Acute upper respiratory infection, unspecified
Inclusion Terms
2 items
Inclusion Terms
- •Upper respiratory disease, acute
- •Upper respiratory infection NOS
Billable Code
J06.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
Unspecified Conditions
Acute Respiratory Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Rhinovirus Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Infection
Acute Upper Respiratory Infection
Viral Respiratory Infection
Acute Viral Upper Respiratory Infection
Acute Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Acute Viral Upper Respiratory Infection
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.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Excludes2
9 items
Excludes2
From J00-J99:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •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
7 items
Use Additional Code
Notes
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Notes
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).