Question

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

Answer 1

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 over 16000 codes.
For acute tonsillitis code is: J03.90.
For chronic tonsillitis code is: J35.01.

Answer 2

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.