J95.82Postprocedural respiratory failure

J95.82 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for postprocedural respiratory failure. It belongs to category J95 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified), block J95 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified) and chapter 10 (diseases of the respiratory system). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within J95.8 (other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified), J95.82 is specifically for postprocedural respiratory failure. Related codes cover postprocedural pneumothorax and air leak (J95.81), postprocedural hemorrhage of a respiratory system organ or structure following a procedure (J95.83), Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) (J95.84), complication of respirator [ventilator] (J95.85), postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a respiratory system organ or structure following a procedure (J95.86), Transfusion-associated dyspnea (TAD) (J95.87), other intraoperative complications of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified (J95.88) and other postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified (J95.89).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: J95.821 (failure) and J95.822 (failure).

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of J95.82, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: respiratory failure in other conditions (J96.-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.