Acute postprocedural respiratory failure
Billable / specific
J95.821 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
- Postprocedural respiratory failure NOS
Includes (from J95)
- 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).
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- respiratory failure in other conditions (J96.-) (from J95.82)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J95)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J95)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J95)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J95)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J95)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J95)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J95)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J95)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J95)
- aspiration pneumonia (J69.-) (from J95)
- emphysema (subcutaneous) resulting from a procedure (T81.82) (from J95)
- hypostatic pneumonia (J18.2) (from J95)
- pulmonary manifestations due to radiation (J70.0-J70.1) (from J95)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, where applicable, to identify: (from J95)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J95)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J95)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J95)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J95)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J95)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J95)
Also known as
- Postprocedural respiratory failure NOS
- Complication, respiratory system, postoperative, respiratory failure
- Failure, failed, respiration, respiratory, postprocedural
Parent code
- J95.82Postprocedural respiratory failureHeader
Related codes
- J95.822Acute and chronic postprocedural respiratory failureBillable