ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J30-J39 › J32 Chronic sinusitis › J32.1
Chronic frontal sinusitis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Chronic frontal sinusitis
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from J32 Chronic sinusitis
Excludes2 - not included here
- acute sinusitis (J01.-)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- infectious agent (B95-B97)
Includes
- sinus abscess
- sinus empyema
- sinus infection
- sinus suppuration
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Carbunculus
- Sequestration
- Rhinosinusitis
- Abscess > sinus
- Empyema > sinus
- Fistula > sinus
- Pyocele > sinus
- Trouble > sinus
- Empyema > frontal
- Granuloma > sinus
- Sequestrum > sinus
- Abscess > parasinus
- Abscess > perisinuous
- Empyema > nasal sinus
- Abscess > nose > sinus
- Fistula > frontal sinus
- Fistula > nasal > sinus
- Granuloma > nasal sinus
- Abscess > accessory sinus
- Disease, diseased > sinus
- Empyema > accessory sinus
- Fistula > accessory sinuses
- Abscess > bone > accessory sinus
- Suppuration, suppurative > sinus
- Disease, diseased > frontal sinus
- Degeneration, degenerative > sinus
- Suppuration, suppurative > frontal
- Postnasal drip > due to > sinusitis
- Drip, postnasal > due to > sinusitis
- Infection, infected, infective > sinus
- Suppuration, suppurative > nasal sinus
- Perforation, perforated > frontal sinus
- Infection, infected, infective > frontal
- Suppuration, suppurative > accessory sinus
- Infection, infected, infective > nasal sinus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > sinus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > frontal
- Infection, infected, infective > accessory sinus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nasal sinus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > accessory sinus
Showing 40 of 44 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J32.0 | Chronic maxillary sinusitis | Valid |
| J32.2 | Chronic ethmoidal sinusitis | Valid |
| J32.3 | Chronic sphenoidal sinusitis | Valid |
| J32.4 | Chronic pansinusitis | Valid |
| J32.8 | Other chronic sinusitis | Valid |
| J32.9 | Chronic sinusitis, unspecified | Valid |