J02.8

Acute pharyngitis due to other specified organisms

Billable / specific

J02.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

acute sore throat
Note: 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).

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

acute pharyngitis due to coxsackie virus (B08.5)
acute pharyngitis due to gonococcus (A54.5)
acute pharyngitis due to herpes [simplex] virus (B00.2)
acute pharyngitis due to infectious mononucleosis (B27.-)
enteroviral vesicular pharyngitis (B08.5)
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0) (from J02)
acute laryngopharyngitis (J06.0) (from J02)
peritonsillar abscess (J36) (from J02)
pharyngeal abscess (J39.1) (from J02)
retropharyngeal abscess (J39.0) (from J02)

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J02)
certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J02)
complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J02)
congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J02)
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J02)
injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J02)
neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J02)
smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J02)
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J02)
chronic pharyngitis (J31.2) (from J02)

Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.

code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent
code, where applicable, to identify: (from J02)
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J02)
exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J02)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J02)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J02)
tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J02)
tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J02)