J03.00Billable
Acute streptococcal tonsillitis, unspecified
Chapter 10: Diseases of the respiratory system
Billable Code
J03.00 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 tonsillitis
acute tonsillitis
View TemplatesAcute Tonsillitis
View documentation for exudative tonsillitis
exudative tonsillitis
View TemplatesAcute Exudative Tonsillitis
View documentation for strep sore throat
strep sore throat
View TemplatesStreptococcal Pharyngitis
View documentation for streptococcal sore throat
streptococcal sore throat
View TemplatesAcute Streptococcal 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:
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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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).