Specific code 2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 500
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis
  • Short description: Coal workers' pneumocon.
  • ICD-9-CM 500 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 500 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).
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  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 500: 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 500 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J60 Coalworker's pneumoconiosis
Approximate Synonyms
  • Anthracosis
Applies To
  • Anthracosilicosis
  • Anthracosis
  • Black lung disease
  • Coal workers' lung
  • Miners' asthma
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 500:
  • Anthracosilicosis (occupational) 500
  • Anthracosis (lung) (occupational) 500
  • Asthma, asthmatic (bronchial) (catarrh) (spasmodic) 493.9
    • Colliers' 500
    • miners' 500
  • Black
    • lung disease 500
  • Coal miners'
    • lung 500
  • Coal workers' lung or pneumoconiosis 500
  • Colliers'
    • asthma 500
    • lung 500
  • Complaint - see also Disease
    • miners' 500
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • black lung 500
  • Fibrosis, fibrotic
    • 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) 516.31
      • 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
  • Lymphadenitis 289.3
    • due to
      • anthracosis (occupational) 500
      • Brugia (Wuchereria) malayi 125.1
      • diphtheria (toxin) 032.89
      • lymphogranuloma venereum 099.1
      • Wuchereria bancrofti 125.0
  • Miners' - see also condition
    • asthma 500
    • lung 500
  • Pneumoconiosis (due to) (inhalation of) 505
    • coal
      • miners' (simple) 500
      • workers' (simple) 500
    • silica NEC 502
      • and carbon 500
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • black lung 500
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