Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 136.3
Pneumocystosis
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 136.3 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 136.3 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).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 136.3 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM B59 Pneumocystosis
Approximate Synonyms
  • Pneumocystis pneumonia
  • Pneumocystosis jiroveci pneumonia (disorder)
  • Pneumocystosis jirovecii pneumonia (disorder)
  • Pneumocystosis pneumonia
Clinical Information
  • A pulmonary disease in humans occurring in immunodeficient or malnourished patients or infants, characterized by dyspnea, tachypnea, and hypoxemia. Pneumocystis pneumonia is a frequently seen opportunistic infection in aids. It is caused by the fungus pneumocystis jirovecii. The disease is also found in other mammals where it is caused by related species of pneumocystis
  • Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (pcp). Pneumonia resulting from infection with pneumocystis carinii, frequently seen in the immunologically compromised, such as persons with aids, or steroid-treated individuals, the elderly, or premature or debilitated babies during their first three months. Patients may be only slightly febrile (or even afebrile), but are likely to be extremely weak, dyspneic, and cyanotic. This is a major cause of morbidity among patients with aids
  • Pneumonia resulting from infection with pneumocystis carinii, frequently seen in the immunologically compromised, such as persons with aids, or steroid-treated individuals, the elderly, or premature or debilitated babies during their first three months. Patients may be only slightly febrile (or even afebrile), but are likely to be extremely weak, dyspneic, and cyanotic. This is a major cause of morbidity among patients with aids
  • Pulmonary disease in humans occurring in immunodeficient or malnourished patients or infants, characterized by dyspnea, tachypnea, and hypoxemia; pneumocystis pneumonia is a frequent opportunistic infection in aids; also found in other mammals where it is caused by related species of pneumocystis
Applies To
  • Pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii
  • Pneumonia due to Pneumocystis jiroveci
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 136.3:
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia 136.3
  • Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia 136.3
  • Pneumocystosis 136.3
    • with pneumonia 136.3
  • 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
    • due to
      • adenovirus 480.0
      • anaerobes 482.81
      • Bacterium anitratum 482.83
      • Chlamydia, chlamydial 483.1
      • coccidioidomycosis 114.0
      • Diplococcus (pneumoniae) 481
      • Eaton's agent 483.0
      • Escherichia coli (E. coli) 482.82
      • Friedländer's bacillus 482.0
      • fumes or vapors (chemical) (inhalation) 506.0
      • fungus NEC 117.9 [484.7]
      • Hemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae) 482.2
      • Herellea 482.83
      • influenza (see also Influenza) 487.0
      • Klebsiella pneumoniae 482.0
      • Mycoplasma (pneumoniae) 483.0
      • parainfluenza virus 480.2
      • pleuropneumonia-like organism (PPLO) 483.0
      • Pneumococcus 481
      • Pneumocystis carinii 136.3
      • Pneumocystis jiroveci 136.3
      • Proteus 482.83
      • Pseudomonas 482.1
      • respiratory syncytial virus 480.1
      • rickettsia 083.9 [484.8]
      • SARS-associated coronavirus 480.3
      • specified
      • Staphylococcus 482.40
      • Streptococcus - see also Pneumonia, streptococcal
      • virus (see also Pneumonia, viral) 480.9
        • SARS-associated coronavirus 480.3
    • 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
    • plasma cell 136.3
    • Pneumocystis (carinii) (jiroveci) 136.3
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