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Specific code 2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 480.8
Pneumonia due to other virus not elsewhere classified
  • Short description: Viral pneumonia NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 480.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 480.8 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).
  • You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 480.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 480.8: 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 480.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J12.89 Other viral pneumonia
Approximate Synonyms
  • Bronchopneumonia due to Human metapneumovirus
  • Hantanvirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Human metapneumovirus bronchopneumonia
  • Human metapneumovirus pneumonia
  • Mononuclear interstitial pneumonia
  • Pneumonia due to Human metapneumovirus
480.8 Excludes
  • congenital rubella pneumonitis (771.0)
  • pneumonia complicating viral diseases classified elsewhere (484.1-484.8)
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 480.8:
  • 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
    • specified
    • viral, virus (broncho) (interstitial) (lobar) 480.9
      • with influenza, flu, or grippe (see also Influenza) 487.0
      • adenoviral 480.0
      • parainfluenza 480.2
      • respiratory syncytial 480.1
      • SARS-associated coronavirus 480.3
      • specified type NEC 480.8
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