Chronic rhinitis
Billable / specific
J31.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Atrophic rhinitis (chronic)
- Granulomatous rhinitis (chronic)
- Hypertrophic rhinitis (chronic)
- Obstructive rhinitis (chronic)
- Ozena
- Purulent rhinitis (chronic)
- Rhinitis (chronic) NOS
- Ulcerative rhinitis (chronic)
Includes (from J31)
- 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).
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J31)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J31)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J31)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J31)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J31)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J31)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J31)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J31)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J31)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, where applicable, to identify: (from J31)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J31)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J31)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J31)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J31)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J31)
Also known as
- Atrophic rhinitis (chronic)
- Granulomatous rhinitis (chronic)
- Hypertrophic rhinitis (chronic)
- Obstructive rhinitis (chronic)
- Ozena
- Purulent rhinitis (chronic)
- Rhinitis (chronic) NOS
- Ulcerative rhinitis (chronic)
- Atrophy, atrophic, rhinitis
- Catarrh, catarrhal, chronic
- Congestion, congestive, catarrhal
- Fever, catarrhal, chronic
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic, rhinitis
- Rhinitis
Parent code
- J31Chronic rhinitis, nasopharyngitis and pharyngitisHeader