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Category · FY2027

J32 Chronic sinusitis

  • Header · not billable

J32 is not billable. The category heads 7 billable codes in FY2027: the 7 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Antritis → J32.0
  • Cloudy antrum, antra → J32.0
  • Pansinusitis (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nonpurulent) (purulent) → J32.4

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 10 Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99)
  2. J30-J39 Other diseases of upper respiratory tract (J30-J39)
  3. J32 Chronic sinusitis
Billable codes
7
Subdivisions
7
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
26

Codes in J32

  1. J32.0
    Chronic maxillary sinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Antritis (chronic)
    • Maxillary sinusitis NOS
  2. J32.1
    Chronic frontal sinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Frontal sinusitis NOS
  3. J32.2
    Chronic ethmoidal sinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Ethmoidal sinusitis NOS

    Excludes1

    • Woakes' ethmoiditis (J33.1) J33.1
  4. J32.3
    Chronic sphenoidal sinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Sphenoidal sinusitis NOS
  5. J32.4
    Chronic pansinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Pansinusitis NOS
  6. J32.8
    Other chronic sinusitis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Sinusitis (chronic) involving more than one sinus but not pansinusitis
  7. J32.9
    Chronic sinusitis, unspecified
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Sinusitis (chronic) NOS

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At J32

Includes

  • sinus abscess
  • sinus empyema
  • sinus infection
  • sinus suppuration

Excludes2

  • acute sinusitis (J01.-) J01

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • infectious agent (B95-B97) B95 B97

Notes that also apply

Chapter 10 instructions (Notes 1, Excludes2 9, Use additional code 7): printed on the chapter 10 page.

Index entries

  • Antritis → J32.0
  • Cloudy antrum, antra → J32.0
  • Pansinusitis (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nonpurulent) (purulent) → J32.4
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent) → J32.9
  • Antritismaxilla → J32.0
  • Fistula (cutaneous)maxillary → J32.0
  • Fistula (cutaneous)oroantral → J32.0
  • Lesion(s) (nontraumatic)maxillary sinus → J32.0
  • Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic)antrum → J32.0
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent)maxillary → J32.0
  • Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic)frontal sinus (chronic) → J32.1
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent)frontal → J32.1
  • Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic)ethmoid (bone) (chronic) (sinus) → J32.2
  • Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic)ethmoid (bone) → J32.2
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent)ethmoidal → J32.2
  • Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic)sphenoidal (sinus) (chronic) → J32.3
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent)sphenoidal → J32.3
  • Sinusitis (accessory) (chronic) (hyperplastic) (nasal) (nonpurulent) (purulent)involving more than one sinus but not pansinusitis → J32.8
  • Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic)nasal → J32.9
  • Degeneration, degenerativenasal sinus (mucosa) → J32.9
  • Pyoceleturbinate (bone) → J32.9
  • Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic)maxilla, maxillarysinus (chronic) → J32.0
  • Degeneration, degenerativenasal sinus (mucosa)maxillary → J32.0
  • Fistula (cutaneous)oral (cutaneous)maxillary → J32.0
  • Degeneration, degenerativenasal sinus (mucosa)frontal → J32.1
  • Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic)boneethmoid → J32.2

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