Specific code 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 516.30
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, not otherwise specified
  • 2014
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • Short description: Idiopath inters pneu NOS.
  • ICD-9-CM 516.30 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 516.30 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 516.30.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 516.30: 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 516.30 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J84.111 Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, not otherwise specified
Approximate Synonyms
  • Fibrosing alveolitis, idiopathic
  • Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis
  • Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
  • Interstitial pneumonia, idiopathic
Applies To
  • Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 516.30:
  • Alveolitis
    • fibrosing (chronic) (cryptogenic) (lung) 516.31
      • idiopathic 516.30
      • rheumatoid 714.81
  • 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
    • interstitial 516.8
      • with influenzal (see also Influenza) 487.0
      • acute
        • due to Pneumocystis (carinii) (jiroveci) 136.3
          • meaning:
            • acute interstitial pneumonitis 516.33
            • atypical pneumonia - see Pneumonia, atypical
            • bacterial pneumonia - see Pneumonia, bacterial
      • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
      • desquamative 516.37
      • hypostatic 514
      • idiopathic 516.30
      • lipoid 507.1
      • lymphoid (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
      • non-specific (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
      • organizing (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
      • plasma cell 136.3
      • Pseudomonas 482.1
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