J44.0Billable
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) lower respiratory infection
Billable Code
J44.0 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
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Acute Exacerbation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Acute Exacerbation
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Acute Exacerbation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Bronchitis
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Congestion
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Acute Exacerbation
Emphysema, Apical Type
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Acute Bronchitis
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Pneumonia
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) exacerbation
Lower Respiratory Infection
Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
Lung Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Severe
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:
Includes
8 items
Includes
From J44:
- •asthma with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- •chronic asthmatic (obstructive) bronchitis
- •chronic bronchitis with airway obstruction
- •chronic bronchitis with emphysema
- •chronic emphysematous bronchitis
- •chronic obstructive asthma
- •chronic obstructive bronchitis
- •chronic obstructive tracheobronchitis
Excludes2
11 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
1 item
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).