Chronic frontal sinusitis
Billable / specific
J32.1 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
- Frontal sinusitis NOS
Includes (from J32)
- sinus abscess
- sinus empyema
- sinus infection
- sinus suppuration
- 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).
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J32)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J32)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J32)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J32)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J32)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J32)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J32)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J32)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J32)
- acute sinusitis (J01.-) (from J32)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, where applicable, to identify: (from J32)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J32)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J32)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J32)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J32)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J32)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J32)
- code to identify: (from J32)
- infectious agent (B95-B97) (from J32)
Also known as
- Frontal sinusitis NOS
- Abscess, frontal sinus
- Degeneration, degenerative, nasal sinus, frontal
- Sinusitis, frontal
Parent code
- J32Chronic sinusitisHeader