New 2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes List
For the 2024 fiscal year, the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes system has been updated with 526 new codes, of which 395 are new billable codes.
Significant updates were made to Chapter 20 - External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99). New diagnosis codes were introduced to specify the presence of foreign objects such as batteries, plastic, metal, and both organic and non-organic materials. This chapter received a total of 173 new codes.
Chapter 13 - Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99) added 44 new codes to specify osteoporosis with pathological fractures.
Chapter 7 - Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa (H00-H59) has been updated with 47 new diagnosis codes. These additions cover conditions like proliferative sickle-cell retinopathy, specific eye muscle issues, other forms of strabismus, and the sensation of a foreign body in the eye.
Here is a summary of the new codes added this year:
- Chapter 1: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases 2
- Chapter 2: Neoplasms 16
- Chapter 3: Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism 8
- Chapter 4: Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases 22
- Chapter 6: Diseases of the nervous system 34
- Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa 47
- Chapter 9: Diseases of the circulatory system 14
- Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system 10
- Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system 22
- Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue 44
- Chapter 14: Diseases of the genitourinary system 18
- Chapter 15: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium 8
- Chapter 17: Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities 28
- Chapter 18: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified 24
- Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes 17
- Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality 173
- Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services 39
Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system (J00–J99)
- J15.69 - Pneumonia due to other Gram-negative bacteria
J44.8 - Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- J15.61 - Pneumonia due to Acinetobacter baumannii
J15.6 - Pneumonia due to other Gram-negative bacteria
- J4A.8 - Other chronic lung allograft dysfunction
- J4A.0 - Restrictive allograft syndrome
- J44.81 - Bronchiolitis obliterans and bronchiolitis obliterans synd
J4A - Chronic lung allograft dysfunction
- J44.89 - Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- J4A.9 - Chronic lung allograft dysfunction, unspecified