J96.2

J96.2: Acute and chronic respiratory failure

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

J96.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute and chronic respiratory failure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Acute on chronic respiratory failure

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above J96.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on J96: Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified

acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
cardiorespiratory failure (R09.2)
newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
postprocedural respiratory failure (J95.82-)
respiratory arrest (R09.2)
respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)

Other codes that can never be billed with J96.2

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

R06Abnormalities of breathing
R09Other symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory system
R09.2Respiratory arrest

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 J96.2

3 child codes. Green means billable.