To accurately assign the ICD-10 code D89. 9, disorder involving the immune mechanism unspecified, or D84. 9, immunodeficiency unspecified, the patient's immunocompromised state should not be attributed to a chronic condition or a prescribed medication therapy.
Z92. 25 - Personal history of immunosuppression therapy. ICD-10-CM.
ICD-10-CM Code for Pneumonia due to other specified infectious organisms J16. 8.
For a pneumonia case confirmed as due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), assign codes U07. 1, COVID-19, and J12. 89, Other viral pneumonia.
People with immunodeficiency or autoimmune disease are considered immunocompromised, but other factors can also cause someone to be immunocompromised, such as cancer, cancer treatments, metabolic disorders or advanced age, according to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
But when you're immunocompromised, your immune system's defenses are low, affecting its ability to fight off infections and diseases. Depending on why your immune system is compromised, this state can be either permanent or temporary.
J18. 9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM J18.
In community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), you get infected in a community setting. It doesn't happen in a hospital, nursing home, or other healthcare center. Your lungs are part of your respiratory system. This system supplies fresh oxygen to your blood and removes carbon dioxide, a waste product.
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P23 P23.
COVID-19 Pneumonia In pneumonia, the lungs become filled with fluid and inflamed, leading to breathing difficulties. For some people, breathing problems can become severe enough to require treatment at the hospital with oxygen or even a ventilator. The pneumonia that COVID-19 causes tends to take hold in both lungs.
ICD-10 | Fever, unspecified (R50. 9)
Z20.822 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 For symptomatic individuals with actual or suspected exposure to COVID-19 and the infection has been ruled out, or test results are inconclusive or unknown, assign code Z20. 822.