J12.82 — Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019
J12.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Code first
The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.
- COVID-19 (U07.1)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Pneumonia due to 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
- Pneumonia due to COVID-19
Risk adjustment
J12.82 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
J12.82 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies — 15 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52466Nebulizers - Policy Article
- A52466Nebulizers - Policy Article
- A52466Nebulizers - Policy Article
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
How J12.82 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to J12.82.
- COVID-19›pneumonia
- Pneumonia›2019 coronavirus(novel)
- Pneumonia›coronavirus 2019(novel) (disease)
- Pneumonia›COVID-19
- Pneumonia›SARS-CoV-2
- Syndrome›severe acute respiratory›coronavirus 2›pneumonia
Related codes at this level
Codes that share J12.8. If J12.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about J12.82
- Is J12.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. J12.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does J12.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99), in the block Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18).