Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 495.8
Other specified allergic alveolitis and pneumonitis
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 495.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 495.8 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: 495.8 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J67.8 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to other organic dusts
Approximate Synonyms
  • Animal handlers' lung
  • Asthmatic pulmonary alveolitis
  • Bakers' asthma
  • Cheese-makers' asthma
  • Cheese-washers' lung
  • Coffee workers lung
  • Coffee-workers' lung
  • Feather-pickers' disease
  • Fish-meal workers' lung
  • Furriers' lung
  • Grain fever
  • Grain-handlers' disease
  • New Guinea lung
  • Paprika splitters' lung
  • Pituitary snuff-takers' disease
  • Prolonged pulmonary alveolitis
  • Pyrethrum alveolitis
  • Sequoiosis
  • Sewage workers' lung
  • Simple pulmonary alveolitis
  • Tea-makers' asthma
  • Tropical pulmonary alveolitis
  • Wheat weevil disease
  • Wood asthma
Applies To
  • Cheese-washers' lung
  • Coffee workers' lung
  • Fish-meal workers' lung
  • Furriers' lung
  • Grain-handlers' disease or lung
  • Pituitary snuff-takers' disease
  • Sequoiosis or red-cedar asthma
  • Wood asthma
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 495.8:
  • Allergy, allergic (reaction) 995.3
    • alveolitis (extrinsic) 495.9
      • due to
        • Aspergillus clavatus 495.4
        • cryptostroma corticale 495.6
        • organisms (fungal, thermophilic actinomycete, other) growing in ventilation (air conditioning systems) 495.7
      • specified type NEC 495.8
  • Alveolitis
    • allergic (extrinsic) 495.9
      • due to organisms (fungal, thermophilic actinomycete, other) growing in ventilation (air conditioning systems) 495.7
      • specified type NEC 495.8
  • Asthma, asthmatic (bronchial) (catarrh) (spasmodic) 493.9
    • red cedar 495.8
    • sequoiosis 495.8
    • wood 495.8
  • Cheese washers' lung 495.8
  • Coffee workers' lung 495.8
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • grain-handlers' 495.8
    • pituitary snuff-takers' 495.8
  • Fish
    • meal workers' lung 495.8
  • Furriers' lung 495.8
  • Grain-handlers' disease or lung 495.8
  • Pituitary snuff-takers' disease 495.8
  • Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) (see also Pneumonia) 486
    • allergic 495.9
      • specified type NEC 495.8
    • wood-dust 495.8
  • Red cedar asthma 495.8
  • Sequoiosis asthma 495.8
  • Wood asthma 495.8
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