J05.1
J05.1: Acute epiglottitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
J05.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute epiglottitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- epiglottitis, chronic (J37.0)
Other codes that can never be billed with J05.1
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- J04Acute laryngitis and tracheitis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead J05.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.