J39.2
J39.2: Other diseases of pharynx
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
J39.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other diseases of pharynx. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check J39.2 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.
- Cyst of pharynx
- Edema of pharynx
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above J39.2
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with J39.2
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R60Edema, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
J39.2 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56729Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Head and Neck
- A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Pharyngoplegia
- Tornwaldt's cyst or disease
- Atrophy, atrophic›pharynx
- Bursitis›Thornwaldt, Tornwaldt
- Cicatrix›hypopharynx
- Cicatrix›nasopharynx
- Cicatrix›pharynx
- Cicatrix›throat
- Cyst›hypopharynx
- Cyst›nasopharynx
- Cyst›pharynx(wall)
- Cyst›Thornwaldt's
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.