J44.8
J44.8: Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
J44.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above J44.8
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with J44.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
The condition this code belongs to
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead J44.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.