Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM
Instructional notes
Chapter 10
Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
- 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)
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Notes
- 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).
J32
Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
- acute sinusitis (J01.-)
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Includes
- sinus abscess
- sinus empyema
- sinus infection
- sinus suppuration
This code
Inclusion terms
- Sinusitis (chronic) involving more than one sinus but not pansinusitis
Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system · J30-J39 Other diseases of upper respiratory tract (J30-J39)
Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.
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