2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

I26 Pulmonary embolism

  • Non-billable
  • 2016–2025

I26 is a non-billable/non-specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Pulmonary embolism.

Includes

  • Pulmonary (acute) (artery)(vein) infarction

  • Pulmonary (acute) (artery)(vein) thromboembolism

  • Pulmonary (acute) (artery)(vein) thrombosis

Type 1 excludes

  • Cor pulmonale without embolism (I27.81)

Type 2 excludes

  • Chronic pulmonary embolism (I27.82)

  • Personal history of pulmonary embolism (Z86.711)

  • Pulmonary embolism complicating abortion, ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2)

  • Pulmonary embolism complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.-)

  • Pulmonary embolism due to trauma (T79.0, T79.1)

  • Pulmonary embolism due to complications of surgical and medical care (T80.0, T81.7-, T82.8-)

  • Septic (non-pulmonary) arterial embolism (I76)

Codes

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    Code changed

    • Type 1 excludes

        • cor pulmonale without embolism (I27.81)
  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code