Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified
Billable / specificHCC V28 280
J44.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Chronic obstructive airway disease NOS
- Chronic obstructive lung disease NOS
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
- 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).
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- lung diseases due to external agents (J60-J70)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J44)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J44)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J44)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J44)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J44)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J44)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J44)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J44)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J44)
- cystic fibrosis (E84.-) (from J44)
- bronchiectasis (J47.-) (from J44)
- chronic bronchitis NOS (J42) (from J44)
- chronic simple and mucopurulent bronchitis (J41.-) (from J44)
- chronic tracheitis (J42) (from J44)
- chronic tracheobronchitis (J42) (from J44)
- emphysema without chronic bronchitis (J43.-) (from J44)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, where applicable, to identify: (from J44)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J44)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J44)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J44)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J44)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J44)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J44)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
Also known as
- Chronic obstructive airway disease NOS
- Chronic obstructive lung disease NOS
- Disease, diseased, airway, obstructive, chronic
- Disease, diseased, lung, obstructive
- Disease, diseased, pulmonary, chronic obstructive
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive, airway, chronic
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive, lung, disease, chronic
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive, respiratory, chronic
Parent code
- J44Other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseHeader