J93Pneumothorax and air leak
ICD-10-CM category (non-billable header) code — part of Other diseases of the pleura (J90-J94)
Coding Notes
Excludes1 (never code both together)
- congenital or perinatal pneumothorax (P25.1)
- postprocedural air leak (J95.812)
- postprocedural pneumothorax (J95.811)
- traumatic pneumothorax (S27.0)
- tuberculous (current disease) pneumothorax (A15.-)
- pyopneumothorax (J86.-)
Subcategories (4)
- J93.0 Spontaneous tension pneumothorax
- J93.1 Other spontaneous pneumothorax
- J93.8 Other pneumothorax and air leak
- J93.9 Pneumothorax, unspecified