PDGM · Clinical group

L — MMTA - Respiratory

One of the twelve PDGM clinical groups. CMS maps 235 ICD-10-CM codes to it in grouper v07.1.26.

OASIS-E2 v1.00.0 · ingested 2026-04-26

What lands a period in this group

The clinical group is set by the diagnosis reported in the primary position, and it is one of the five things that decide a 30-day period’s payment group — alongside admission source, timing, functional impairment level and comorbidity adjustment. CMS maps 235 ICD-10-CM codes to MMTA - Respiratory, spread across 12 ICD-10-CM ranges.

Those ranges are not always the ones you would expect from the chapter. Cerebrovascular disease sits in the circulatory chapter alongside heart failure, but CMS groups strokes as neurological rehabilitation — which is why the chapter a code lives in is a poor guide to how it pays.

Functional impairment thresholds for MMTA - Respiratory

The same OASIS point total means different things in different groups. In this group a patient scoring 33 or fewer points is low functional impairment, 34 to 46 is medium, and 47 or more is high. CMS sets the bands so roughly a third of periods in each group land in each level, which is why the same documentation can produce a different level in a different group.

ICD-10-CM ranges that feed this group

RangeDescriptionCodes in this group
J09-J18Influenza and pneumonia47
J40-J4AChronic lower respiratory diseases39
J60-J70Lung diseases due to external agents33
J80-J84Other respiratory diseases principally affecting the interstitium27
J95-J95Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified26
J96-J99Other diseases of the respiratory system23
J20-J22Other acute lower respiratory infections15
J90-J94Other diseases of the pleura13
J85-J86Suppurative and necrotic conditions of the lower respiratory tract6
J30-J39Other diseases of upper respiratory tract3
U00-U49Provisional assignment of new diseases of uncertain etiology or emergency use2
J00-J06Acute upper respiratory infections1

Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.1.26. Counts are read from the CMS table, not transcribed.

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