J22Billable
Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection
Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
- •Acute (lower) respiratory (tract) infection NOS
Excludes1
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- •upper respiratory infection (acute) (J06.9)
Billable Code
J22 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
View documentation for lower respiratory infection
lower respiratory infection
View TemplatesLower Respiratory Infection
View documentation for lower respiratory tract infection
lower respiratory tract infection
View TemplatesLower Respiratory Tract 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:
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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
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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).