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ICD-10/J96.11

J96.11 ICD-10-CM Code: Chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 189 — PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE (MDC 04)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Risk Adjustment (CMS-HCC)

Payment categories this diagnosis maps to under CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2026.

  • HCC 213 — Cardio-Respiratory Failure and Shock

Other models: CMS-HCC V22 HCC 84

Risk scores depend on the enrollee's full accepted diagnosis set and segment; a category mapping alone does not determine payment.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (J96.11).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for J96.11 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

  • acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
  • cardiorespiratory failure (R09.2)
  • newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
  • postprocedural respiratory failure (J95.82-)
  • respiratory arrest (R09.2)
  • respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
  • respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to J96.11 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • J96.00 — Acute respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
  • J96.01 — Acute respiratory failure with hypoxia
  • J96.02 — Acute respiratory failure with hypercapnia
  • J96.1 — Chronic respiratory failure
  • J96.10 — Chronic respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
  • J96.12 — Chronic respiratory failure with hypercapnia
  • J96.2 — Acute and chronic respiratory failure
  • J96.20 — Acute and chronic respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
  • J96.21 — Acute and chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia
  • J96.22 — Acute and chronic respiratory failure with hypercapnia

View all codes in the J96 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (1)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Failure, failed, respiration, respiratory, chronic, with, hypoxia