Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection
Billable / specific
J22 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- 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).
Applicable to
- Acute (lower) respiratory (tract) infection NOS
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- upper respiratory infection (acute) (J06.9)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- 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)
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0)
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Also known as
- Acute (lower) respiratory (tract) infection NOS
- Infection, infected, infective, chest
- Infection, infected, infective, respiratoryNEC, acute
- Infection, infected, infective, respiratoryNEC, lower