ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J30-J39 › J34 Other and unspecified disorders of... › J34.2
Deviated nasal septum
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 Deviated nasal septum
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 J34 Other and unspecified disorders of nose and nasal sinuses
Excludes2 - not included here
- varicose ulcer of nasal septum (I86.8)
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.
- Change > joint
- Mushrooming hip
- Deformity > nasal
- Change > hip joint
- Dislocation > partial
- Derangement > shoulder
- Dislocation > incomplete
- Disorder > joint > derangement
- Dislocation > vertebra > partial
- Deviation > septum
- Deflection > septum
- Dislocation > septum
- Crooked septum, nasal
- Deflection > turbinate
- Deviation > nasal septum
- Deformity > nose > septum
- Deformity > septum, nasal
- Irregular, irregularity > septum
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J34.0 | Abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of nose | Valid |
| J34.1 | Cyst and mucocele of nose and nasal sinus | Valid |
| J34.3 | Hypertrophy of nasal turbinates | Valid |
| J34.8 | Other specified disorders of nose and nasal sinuses | Not billable |
| J34.9 | Unspecified disorder of nose and nasal sinuses | Valid |