J41

J41: Simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

J41 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis. 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.

chronic bronchitis NOS (J42)
chronic obstructive bronchitis (J44.-)

Use additional code

Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code to identify:
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)

Other codes that can never be billed with J41

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

J42Unspecified chronic bronchitis
R05Cough

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 J41

3 child codes. Green means billable.