J02.9Billable
Acute pharyngitis, unspecified
Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
- •Gangrenous pharyngitis (acute)
- •Infective pharyngitis (acute) NOS
- •Pharyngitis (acute) NOS
- •Sore throat (acute) NOS
- •Suppurative pharyngitis (acute)
- •Ulcerative pharyngitis (acute)
Billable Code
J02.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for acute pharyngitis
acute pharyngitis
View TemplatesAcute Pharyngitis
View documentation for exudative pharyngitis
exudative pharyngitis
View TemplatesExudative Pharyngitis
View documentation for pharyngitis
pharyngitis
View TemplatesAcute Pharyngitis
View documentation for sore throat
sore throat
View TemplatesAcute Pharyngitis
View documentation for throat culture
throat culture
View TemplatesThroat Culture
View documentation for throat irritation
throat irritation
View TemplatesPharyngitis
View documentation for viral pharyngitis
viral pharyngitis
View TemplatesAcute Viral Pharyngitis
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
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Includes
From J02:
- •acute sore throat
Excludes2
10 items
Excludes2
From J00-J99:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •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)
Use Additional Code
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Use Additional Code
Notes
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Notes
From J00-J99:
- •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).