J67.0

Applicable To

• Harvester’s lung

• Haymaker’s lung

• Moldy hay disease

Approximate Synonyms

• Farmers lung

• Farmers’ lung

Clinical Information

• A form of alveolitis or pneumonitis due to an acquired hypersensitivity to inhaled antigens associated with farm environment. Antigens in the farm dust are commonly from bacteria actinomycetes saccharopolyspora and thermoactinomyces), fungi, and animal proteins in the soil, straw, crops, pelts, serum, and excreta.

• Systemic and pulmonary reactions resulting from inhalation of dust from moldy hay, threshing dust, or moldy straw, by persons who have become hypersensitive to antigens in the dust; most often associated with inhalation of spores of micromonospora faeni or thermoactinomyces vulgaris.

Details

• J67.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM J67.0 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of J67.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 J67.0 may differ.