J37.0
J37.0: Chronic laryngitis
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
J37.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for chronic laryngitis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check J37.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Catarrhal laryngitis
- Hypertrophic laryngitis
- Sicca laryngitis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
J37.0 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Türck's trachoma
- Angina›exudative, chronic
- Atrophy, atrophic›laryngitis, infective
- Catarrh, catarrhal›larynx, chronic
- Congestion, congestive›glottis
- Congestion, congestive›larynx
- Epiglottitis, epiglottiditis›chronic
- Laryngitis›atrophic
- Laryngitis›catarrhal
- Laryngitis›chronic
- Laryngitis›hypertrophic
- Laryngitis›sicca
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.