A patient is diagnosed as having both acute and chronic tonsillitis. how is this reported in icd-10-cm?

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Meghan Preston

Biology

7 October, 04:48

A patient is diagnosed as having both acute and chronic tonsillitis. how is this reported in icd-10-cm?

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Aileen · Answer 1

The code for chronic tonsillitis is J35.01 and the code for acute tonsillitis is J03.90, icd-10-cm is a set of guidelines for coding and reporting a patients ailments.

Leanna Dennis · Answer 2

ICD-10 is a medical classification list by the World Health Organization.

ICD-10 contains codes for diseases, symptoms, complaints, social circumstances, external causes of injury or diseases. It has o ver 16000 codes.

For acute tonsillitis code is: J03.90.

For chronic tonsillitis code is: J35.01.