Use additional code, if applicable, to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)

Excludes2

  • allergic or eosinophilic pneumonia (J82)
  • aspiration pneumonia NOS (J69.0)
  • meconium pneumonia (P24.01)
  • neonatal aspiration pneumonia (P24.-)
  • pneumonia due to solids and liquids (J69.-)
  • congenital pneumonia (P23.9)
  • lipid pneumonia (J69.1)
  • rheumatic pneumonia (I00)
  • ventilator associated pneumonia (J95.851)
  1. J16 Pneumonia due to other infectious organisms, not elsewhere classified

    Excludes1

    • congenital pneumonia (P23.-)
    • ornithosis (A70)
    • pneumocystosis (B59)
    • pneumonia NOS (J18.9)
    1. J16.0 Chlamydial pneumonia

    2. J16.8 Pneumonia due to other specified infectious organisms

Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.