J32.1 — Chronic frontal sinusitis
J32.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chronic frontal sinusitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Frontal sinusitis NOS
Risk adjustment
J32.1 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
J32.1 is named in 20 Medicare coverage policies — 20 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How J32.1 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to J32.1.
- Abscess›frontal sinus(chronic)
- Sinusitis›frontal
- Degeneration, degenerative›nasal sinus›frontal
Related codes at this level
Codes that share J32. If J32.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about J32.1
- Is J32.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. J32.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does J32.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99), in the block Other diseases of upper respiratory tract (J30-J39).