J95.821 — Acute postprocedural respiratory failure
J95.821 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for acute postprocedural respiratory failure. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Postprocedural respiratory failure NOS
Risk adjustment
J95.821 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
J95.821 is named in 14 Medicare coverage policies — 14 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56500Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
How J95.821 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 J95.821.
- Failure, failed›respiration, respiratory›postprocedural(acute)
- Complication›respiratory system›postoperative›respiratory failure(acute)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share J95.82. If J95.821 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about J95.821
- Is J95.821 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. J95.821 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does J95.821 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99), in the block Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified (J95).