Specific code 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 511.0
Pleurisy without mention of effusion or current tuberculosis
  • 2014
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • Short description: Pleurisy w/o effus or TB.
  • ICD-9-CM 511.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 511.0 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 2014 version of ICD-9-CM 511.0.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 511.0: 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 511.0 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J86.9 Pyothorax without fistula
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J94.1 Fibrothorax
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J94.8 Other specified pleural conditions
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J94.9 Pleural condition, unspecified
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM R09.1 Pleurisy
Approximate Synonyms
  • Acute dry pleurisy
  • Adhesion of pleura
  • Asbestos pleurisy
  • Asbestos-induced bilateral diffuse pleural thickening
  • Asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis
  • Asbestos-induced pleural plaque
  • Bacterial pleurisy
  • Basal pleurisy
  • Calcification of pleura
  • Chronic dry pleurisy
  • Diaphragmatic pleurisy
  • Disorder of pleura
  • Drug-induced pleurisy
  • Dry pleurisy
  • Fibrinous pleurisy
  • Fibrosis of pleura
  • Fibrothorax
  • Infective pleurisy
  • Interlobar pleurisy
  • Obliterative pleuritis
  • Pleural calcification
  • Pleural disease
  • Pleural disease due to asbestos
  • Pleural plaque
  • Pleural plaque due to asbestos exposure
  • Pleural thickening
  • Pleurisy
  • Pleurisy without effusion or active tuberculosis
  • Pneumococcal pleurisy
  • Post-infective pleural fibrosis
  • Post-tuberculous pleural fibrosis
  • Staphylococcal pleurisy
  • Sterile pleurisy
  • Streptococcal pleurisy
  • Thickening of pleura
  • Viral pleurisy
Applies To
  • Adhesion, lung or pleura
  • Calcification of pleura
  • Pleurisy (acute) (sterile):
    • diaphragmatic
    • fibrinous
    • interlobar
  • Pleurisy:
    • NOS
    • pneumococcal
    • staphylococcal
    • streptococcal
  • Thickening of pleura
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 511.0:
  • Adhesion(s), adhesive (postinfectional) (postoperative)
    • lung 511.0
    • pleura, pleuritic 511.0
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
    • pleuropericardial 511.0
    • pulmonary 511.0
  • Body, bodies
    • fibrin, pleura 511.0
  • Calcification
    • pleura 511.0
      • postinfectional 518.89
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Congestion, congestive
    • pleural 511.0
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • pleura (cavity) (see also Pleurisy) 511.0
  • Fever 780.60
    • pleural (see also Pleurisy) 511.0
  • Fibrin
    • ball or bodies, pleural (sac) 511.0
  • Fibrosis, fibrotic
    • pleura 511.0
  • Fibrothorax 511.0
  • Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute) (see also Neuritis) 729.2
    • pleura 511.0
  • Pleurisy (acute) (adhesive) (chronic) (costal) (diaphragmatic) (double) (dry) (fetid) (fibrinous) (fibrous) (interlobar) (latent) (lung) (old) (plastic) (primary) (residual) (sicca) (sterile) (subacute) (unresolved) (with adherent pleura) 511.0
    • with
      • effusion (without mention of cause) 511.9
      • influenza, flu, or grippe (see also Influenza) 487.1
      • tuberculosis - see Pleurisy, tuberculous
    • exudative (see also Pleurisy, with effusion) 511.9
      • bacterial, nontuberculous 511.1
    • influenzal (see also Influenza) 487.1
    • pneumococcal 511.0
    • serofibrinous (see also Pleurisy, with effusion) 511.9
      • bacterial, nontuberculous 511.1
    • serous (see also Pleurisy, with effusion) 511.9
      • bacterial, nontuberculous 511.1
    • staphylococcal 511.0
    • streptococcal 511.0
    • traumatic (post) (current) 862.29
      • with open wound into cavity 862.39
    • tuberculous (with effusion) (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
      • primary, progressive 010.1
  • Retraction
    • pleura (see also Pleurisy) 511.0
  • Thickening
    • pleura (see also Pleurisy) 511.0
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