J02.8✓ Billable

Acute pharyngitis due to other specified organisms

✗ Excludes 1(Not coded here)

  • •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)

Notes

  • ℹcode (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent

Code Hierarchy

┌10Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99)├J00-J06Acute upper respiratory infections (J00-J06)├J02Acute pharyngitis
└J02.8Acute pharyngitis due to other specified organisms

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