J00
Acute nasopharyngitis [common cold]
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 22 never code together
J00code
Excludes1
- acute pharyngitis (J02.-)J02.-J02.-J02.-
- acute sore throat NOS (J02.9)J02.9J02.9J02.9
- influenza virus with other respiratory manifestations (J09.X2, J10.1, J11.1)J09.X2J09.X2J09.X2J10.1J10.1J10.1J11.1J11.1J11.1
- pharyngitis NOS (J02.9)J02.9J02.9J02.9
- rhinitis NOS (J31.0)J31.0J31.0J31.0
- sore throat NOS (J02.9)J02.9J02.9J02.9
J00-J06block
Excludes1
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.0)J44.0
J00-J99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)T59.81-
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 14
J00code
Inclusion terms
- Acute rhinitis
- Coryza (acute)
- Infective nasopharyngitis NOS
- Infective rhinitis
- Nasal catarrh, acute
- Nasopharyngitis NOS
J00-J99chapter
Notes
- 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).J40
Use additional code
- code, where applicable, to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)Z77.22
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)P96.81
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)Z87.891
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)Z57.31
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)F17.-
- tobacco use (Z72.0)Z72.0
Index entries leading here 12
- Catarrh, catarrhal (acute) (febrile) (infectious) (inflammation) J00
- Rhinitis (atrophic) (catarrhal) (chronic) (croupous) (fibrinous) (granulomatous) (hyperplastic) (hypertrophic) (membranous) (obstructive) (purulent) (suppurative) (ulcerative) J31.0
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
- catarrhal J00
- Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) R50.9
- catarrhal (acute) J00
- Symptoms NEC R68.89
- Cold J00
- Common
- cold (head) J00
- Postnasal drip R09.82
- due to
- common cold J00
- due to
- Drip, postnasal (chronic) R09.82
- due to
- common cold J00
- due to
- Coryza (acute) J00
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Nasopharyngitis (acute) (infective) (streptococcal) (subacute) J00
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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