Specific code 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 515
Postinflammatory pulmonary fibrosis
  • Short description: POSTINFLAM PULM FIBROSIS.
  • ICD-9-CM 515 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 515 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2008 version of ICD-9-CM 515.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 515: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 515 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J84.10 Pulmonary fibrosis, unspecified
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J84.89 Other specified interstitial pulmonary diseases
Approximate Synonyms
  • Chronic pneumonia
  • Drug induced interstitial lung disease
  • Drug-induced interstitial lung disorders
  • Fibrosis of lung
  • Granuloma of lung
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • Interstitial lung disease, drug induced
  • Late syphilitic pulmonary fibrosis
  • Post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis
  • Pulmonary fibrosis
  • Pulmonary fibrosis, postinflammatory
  • Pulmonary granuloma
Applies To
  • Cirrhosis of lung chronic or unspecified
  • Fibrosis of lung (atrophic) (confluent) (massive) (perialveolar) (peribronchial) chronic or unspecified
  • Induration of lung chronic or unspecified
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 515:
  • Cirrhosis, cirrhotic 571.5
    • lung (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • pulmonary (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • Fibroid (tumor) (M8890/0) - see also Neoplasm, connective tissue, benign
    • disease, lung (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • induration, lung (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • lung (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • pneumonia (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Fibrosis, fibrotic
    • capillary - see also Arteriosclerosis
      • lung (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • lung (atrophic) (capillary) (chronic) (confluent) (massive) (perialveolar) (peribronchial) 515
      • with
        • anthracosilicosis (occupational) 500
        • anthracosis (occupational) 500
        • asbestosis (occupational) 501
        • bagassosis (occupational) 495.1
        • bauxite 503
        • berylliosis (occupational) 503
        • byssinosis (occupational) 504
        • calcicosis (occupational) 502
        • chalicosis (occupational) 502
        • dust reticulation (occupational) 504
        • farmers' lung 495.0
        • gannister disease (occupational) 502
        • graphite 503
        • pneumonoconiosis (occupational) 505
        • pneumosiderosis (occupational) 503
        • siderosis (occupational) 503
        • silicosis (occupational) 502
        • tuberculosis (see also Tuberculosis) 011.4
      • diffuse (idiopathic) (interstitial) 516.3
      • due to
        • bauxite 503
        • fumes or vapors (chemical) (inhalation) 506.4
        • graphite 503
      • following radiation 508.1
      • postinflammatory 515
      • silicotic (massive) (occupational) 502
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis) 011.4
    • pulmonary (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
      • alveolar capillary block 516.3
      • interstitial
  • Granuloma NEC 686.1
    • lung (infectious) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Hepatization, lung (acute) - see also Pneumonia, lobar
    • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Induration, indurated
    • lung (black) (brown) (chronic) (fibroid) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Pleuropneumonia (acute) (bilateral) (double) (septic) (see also Pneumonia) 486
    • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Pneumonia (acute) (Alpenstich) (benign) (bilateral) (brain) (cerebral) (circumscribed) (congestive) (creeping) (delayed resolution) (double) (epidemic) (fever) (flash) (fulminant) (fungoid) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (incipient) (infantile) (infectious) (infiltration) (insular) (intermittent) (latent) (lobe) (migratory) (newborn) (organized) (overwhelming) (primary) (progressive) (pseudolobar) (purulent) (resolved) (secondary) (senile) (septic) (suppurative) (terminal) (true) (unresolved) (vesicular) 486
    • broncho-, bronchial (confluent) (croupous) (diffuse) (disseminated) (hemorrhagic) (involving lobes) (lobar) (terminal) 485
    • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • cirrhotic (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • fibroid (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • fibrous (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • lobar (diplococcal) (disseminated) (double) (interstitial) (pneumococcal, any type) 481
      • with influenza 487.0
      • bacterial 482.9
      • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
      • Escherichia coli (E. coli) 482.82
      • Friedländer's bacillus 482.0
      • Hemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae) 482.2
      • hypostatic 514
      • influenzal 487.0
      • Klebsiella 482.0
      • ornithosis 073.0
      • Proteus 482.83
      • Pseudomonas 482.1
      • psittacosis 073.0
      • specified organism NEC 483.8
      • staphylococcal 482.40
      • streptococcal - see Pneumonia, streptococcal
      • viral, virus (see also Pneumonia, viral) 480.9
    • parenchymatous (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) (see also Pneumonia) 486
    • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • interstitial (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
  • Sclerosis, sclerotic
    • lung (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • pulmonary (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
      • artery 416.0
      • valve (heart) (see also Endocarditis, pulmonary) 424.3
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