J67.7
Air conditioner and humidifier lung
J67.7 (also written J677) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for air conditioner and humidifier lung. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 10 codes in category J67 (Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to organic dust). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 6 entries. Its coding notes include a Use additional code instruction, 1 Excludes1 entry and 11 Excludes2 entries.
Use additional code
Add the listed code as a secondary code, if known.
Also from chapter/block level (7 notes)
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (11 notes)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Care settings
How CMS programs treat this code. These are CMS claim edits and list entries, not coverage or eligibility rules.
Home Health Primary
Accepted as the primary (principal) diagnosis on a home health claim. The Home Health Grouper assigns it to the MMTA - Respiratory clinical group.
Source: CMS Home Health Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective October 1, 2026Hospital CC
Counts as a complication or comorbidity (CC) when reported as a secondary diagnosis on an inpatient claim. It does not count when the principal diagnosis is one of the 124 codes in its exclusion list. Some MS-DRGs also ignore a CC or MCC that defines the DRG.
Source: CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v44, effective October 1, 2026, Appendix CIncludes
Further defines or gives examples of the content of the category.
- allergic alveolitis and pneumonitis due to inhaled organic dust and particles of fungal, actinomycetic or other origin
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
- Allergic alveolitis due to fungal, thermophilic actinomycetes and other organisms growing in ventilation [air conditioning] systems
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 6 entries
- Air, conditioner lung or pneumonitis
- Allergy, allergic (reaction) (to), alveolitis (extrinsic), due to, organisms (fungal, thermophilic actinomycete) growing in ventilation (air conditioning) systems
- Humidifier lung or pneumonitis
- Pneumonitis (acute) (primary), air-conditioner
- Pneumonitis (acute) (primary), hypersensitivity, air conditioner lung
- Pneumonitis (acute) (primary), ventilation (air-conditioning)