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Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 517.1
Rheumatic pneumonia
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
  • Manifestation Code

  • ICD-9-CM 517.1 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 517.1 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: 517.1 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J17 Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere
Code First
  • Code first underlying disease (390)
ICD-9-CM Coding Information
  • 517.1 describes the manifestation of an underlying disease, not the disease itself.
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 517.1:
  • 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
    • rheumatic 390 [517.1]
  • Rheumatism, rheumatic (acute NEC) 729.0
    • pneumonia 390 [517.1]
    • pneumonitis 390 [517.1]
  • Wright's syndrome (hyperabduction) 447.8
    • pneumonia 390 [517.1]
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