J95.1
ICD-10BillableAcute pulmonary insufficiency following thoracic surgery
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
Acute pulmonary insufficiency following thoracic surgery
J95.1 is valid for submission on a claim — CMS flags it as a billable, specific code.
Excludes2
Not included here. The condition is not part of this code, but a patient may have both, and both codes may be reported together.
- Functional disturbances following cardiac surgery (I97.0, I97.1-)
Related codes in J95
- J95.0Tracheostomy complicationscategory
- J95.2Acute pulmonary insufficiency following nonthoracic surgery
- J95.3Chronic pulmonary insufficiency following surgery
- J95.4Chemical pneumonitis due to anesthesia
- J95.5Postprocedural subglottic stenosis
- J95.6Intraop hemor/hemtom of a resp sys org comp a procedurecategory
- J95.7Accidental pnctr & lac of a respiratory system org dur proccategory
- J95.8Oth intraop and postproc comp and disorders of resp sys, NECcategory
Where this code sits
- Parent code
- J95
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.