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Specific code 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 460
Acute nasopharyngitis (common cold)
  • Short description: ACUTE NASOPHARYNGITIS.
  • ICD-9-CM 460 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 460 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2008 version of ICD-9-CM 460.
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Convert to ICD-10-CM: 460 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J00 Acute nasopharyngitis [common cold]
Approximate Synonyms
  • Acute irritant rhinitis
  • Common cold
  • Infectious rhinitis
  • Irritant rhinitis
  • Irritant rhinitis (nasal congestion)
  • Nasopharyngitis
  • Rhinitis, infectious
460 Excludes
  • nasopharyngitis, chronic (472.2)
  • pharyngitis:
    • acute or unspecified (462)
    • chronic (472.1)
  • rhinitis:
  • sore throat:
    • acute or unspecified (462)
    • chronic (472.1)
Applies To
  • Coryza (acute)
  • Nasal catarrh, acute
  • Nasopharyngitis:
    • NOS
    • acute
    • infective NOS
  • Rhinitis:
    • acute
    • infective
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 460:
  • Catarrh, catarrhal (inflammation) (see also condition) 460
    • acute 460
    • asthma, asthmatic (see also Asthma) 493.9
    • Bostock's (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
    • bowel - see Enteritis
    • cervix, cervical (canal) (uteri) - see Cervicitis
    • chest (see also Bronchitis) 490
    • enteric - see Enteritis
    • fauces (see also Pharyngitis) 462
    • febrile 460
    • gastroenteric - see Enteritis
    • gastrointestinal - see Enteritis
    • hay (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
    • infectious 460
    • intestinal - see Enteritis
    • larynx (see also Laryngitis, chronic) 476.0
    • middle ear (chronic) - see Otitis media, chronic
    • nasal (chronic) (see also Rhinitis) 472.0
      • acute 460
    • nasopharyngeal (chronic) 472.2
      • acute 460
    • nose - see Catarrh, nasal
    • pneumococcal, acute 466.0
    • suffocating (see also Asthma) 493.9
    • summer (hay) (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
    • tubotympanal 381.4
      • acute (see also Otitis media, acute, nonsuppurative) 381.00
      • chronic 381.10
    • vasomotor (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
    • vesical (bladder) - see Cystitis
  • Cold 460
    • with influenza, flu, or grippe 487.1
    • abscess - see also Tuberculosis, abscess
      • articular - see Tuberculosis, joint
    • agglutinin
      • disease (chronic) or syndrome 283.0
      • hemoglobinuria 283.0
        • paroxysmal (cold) (nocturnal) 283.2
    • allergic (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
    • bronchus or chest - see Bronchitis
      • with grippe or influenza 487.1
    • common (head) 460
      • vaccination, prophylactic (against) V04.7
    • head 460
    • injury syndrome (newborn) 778.2
    • on lung - see Bronchitis
    • sensitivity, autoimmune 283.0
    • virus 460
  • Colic (recurrent) 789.0
    • virus 460
  • Common
    • cold (head) 460
      • vaccination, prophylactic (against) V04.7
  • Coryza (acute) 460
    • with grippe or influenza 487.1
  • Drip, postnasal (chronic) 784.91
    • due to:
      • allergic rhinitis - see Rhinitis, allergic
      • common cold 460
      • gastroesophageal reflux - see Reflux, gastroesophageal
      • nasopharyngitis - see Nasopharyngitis
      • other known condition - code to condition
      • sinusitis - see Sinusitis
  • Epipharyngitis (see also Nasopharyngitis) 460
  • Fever 780.6
    • catarrhal (acute) 460
  • Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) 136.9
    • nasopharynx (chronic) 478.29
      • acute 460
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
    • catarrhal (see also Catarrh) 460
  • Nasopharyngitis (acute) (infective) (subacute) 460
    • chronic 472.2
      • due to external agent - see Condition, respiratory, chronic, due to
    • due to external agent - see Condition, respiratory, due to
    • suppurative (chronic) 472.2
    • ulcerative (chronic) 472.2
  • Rhinitis (atrophic) (catarrhal) (chronic) (croupous) (fibrinous) (hyperplastic) (hypertrophic) (membranous) (purulent) (suppurative) (ulcerative) 472.0
    • acute 460
    • infective 460
    • pneumococcal 460
  • Rhinopharyngitis (acute) (subacute) (see also Nasopharyngitis) 460
    • destructive ulcerating 102.5
  • Snuffles (nonsyphilitic) 460
    • syphilitic (infant) 090.0
 459.9 ICD9Data.com 461 
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