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491.8 - Other Chronic Bronchitis


The ICD 9 Code for Other chronic bronchitis is listed as 491.8.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 491.8
Long Description: Other chronic bronchitis
Short Description: Chronic bronchitis NEC
Chapter: Diseases Of The Respiratory System
Block: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease And Allied Conditions (490-496)
Related Descriptions: Acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis
Bronchiolitis fibrosa obliterans
Bronchiolitis obliterans with usual interstitial pneumonitis
Chronic mucus hypersecretion
Chronic obliterative bronchiolitis
Chronic tracheitis
Chronic tracheobronchitis
Diffuse panbronchiolitis
Drug-induced bronchiolitis obliterans
Obliterating fibrous bronchiolitis
Obliterative bronchiolitis
Subacute obliterative bronchiolitis
Toxic bronchiolitis obliterans
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: J41.8 - Mixed simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 491.8:
491.0 - Simple chronic bronchitis
491.1 - Mucopurulent chronic bronchitis
491.9 - Unspecified chronic bronchitis