Chronic tonsillitis
- J35.01 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM J35.01 became effective on October 1, 2024.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of J35.01 – other international versions of ICD-10 J35.01 may differ.
The following code(s) above J35.01 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to J35.01:
Approximate Synonyms
- Tonsillitis, chronic
ICD-10-CM J35.01 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):
- 011 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy with mcc
- 012 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy with cc
- 013 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy without cc/mcc
- 152 Otitis media and uri with mcc
- 153 Otitis media and uri without mcc
Convert J35.01 to ICD-9-CMCode History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
- 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to J35.01:
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- focal
- tonsils J35.01
- focal
- Remnant
- tonsilJ35.8
- infected J35.01 (chronic)
- tonsilJ35.8
- Septic – see condition
- tonsils, chronic J35.01
- Tonsillitis (acute) (catarrhal) (croupous) (follicular) (gangrenous) (infective) (lacunar) (lingual) (malignant) (membranous) (parenchymatous) (phlegmonous) (pseudomembranous) (purulent) (septic) (subacute) (suppurative) (toxic) (ulcerative) (vesicular) (viral) J03.90
- chronic J35.01
- hypertrophic J35.01