Medical Code Search: "respiratory failure"
Results for “respiratory failure” from ICD-10-CM, Coding Guidance, MS-DRG and HCPCS Level II. Code titles and billable status are read from the published releases.
Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 20, 2026 · All releases and sources
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What MedCoder understood
- You searched
- respiratory failure
- Primary registry
- ICD-10-CM
- Understood as a diagnosis or condition search, so ICD-10-CM is ranked first.
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Recommended codes
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Best matches
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- The tabular carries it at category level.
- 16 codes below, 12 billable in the tabular hierarchy.
16 codes below, 12 billable
- J96.0Acute respiratory failureNot billable
- J96.1Chronic respiratory failureNot billable
- J96.2Acute and chronic respiratory failureNot billable
- J96.9Respiratory failure, unspecifiedNot billable
- J96.00Acute respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapniaBillable
- J96.01Acute respiratory failure with hypoxiaBillable
Under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at subcategory level.
- 3 codes below, all billable in the tabular hierarchy.
Respiratory failure is coded by its course — J96.0- acute, J96.1- chronic, J96.2- acute and chronic (the tabular’s term for acute-on-chronic) — with a 5th character for hypoxia (1), hypercapnia (2), or unspecified (0).
Guidance · Every search term appears in this guidance
Why this matched
- Every search term appears in this guidance
Under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at subcategory level.
- 3 codes below, all billable in the tabular hierarchy.
Under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at subcategory level.
Related codes
Neighbouring concepts, the primary code’s own tabular relationships, and every code set’s full results.
Explore J96
J96 Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified — what its code page carries, from the official tables.
Related concepts, from J96's tabular notes
ICD-10-CM: 23 matches
See all in ICD-10-CM →4 of them are shown above under Best matches.
Coding Guidance: 2 matches
1 of them is shown above under Best matches.
MS-DRG: 1 match
Related grouping categories. This search result does not by itself assign an MS-DRG. Final grouping depends on the complete coded record and grouper logic.
HCPCS Level II: 3 matches
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Official source
Code titles, billable status and tabular instructions on this page are read from the published release files in force today: ICD-10-CM FY2027 (CMS and CDC), MS-DRG v44 (CMS), HCPCS October 2026 (CMS). Open a code to see its official instructions quoted as published, the release and file it came from, its relationships and its change history. A search result is MedCoder’s match of your words to those files, not a code assignment.