J00
Acute nasopharyngitis [common cold]
This code does not map to a risk-adjusting HCC in the loaded models.
Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
acute pharyngitis (J02.-) acute sore throat NOS (J02.9) influenza virus with other respiratory manifestations (J09.X2, J10.1, J11.1) pharyngitis NOS (J02.9) rhinitis NOS (J31.0) sore throat NOS (J02.9)
allergic rhinitis (J30.1-J30.9) chronic pharyngitis (J31.2) chronic rhinitis (J31.0) chronic sore throat (J31.2) nasopharyngitis, chronic (J31.1) vasomotor rhinitis (J30.0)
Acute rhinitis Coryza (acute) Infective nasopharyngitis NOS Infective rhinitis Nasal catarrh, acute Nasopharyngitis NOS
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0)
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)
code, where applicable, to identify: exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) tobacco dependence (F17.-) tobacco use (Z72.0)
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).
Official Guidelines for J00
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20 index paths lead to this code
- Catarrh, catarrhal
- Cold
- Coryza
- Nasopharyngitis
- Cold › common
- Cold › head
- Cold › symptoms
- Cold › virus
- Common › cold
- Fever › catarrhal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory › catarrhal
- Rhinitis › acute
- Rhinitis › infective
- Rhinitis › pneumococcal
- Symptoms NEC › cold
- Symptoms NEC › viral cold
- Catarrh, catarrhal › nasopharyngeal › acute
- Drip, postnasal › due to › common cold
- Infection, infected, infective › respiratory NEC › rhinovirus
- Postnasal drip › due to › common cold