• Document severity:
  • Acute
  • Chronic
  • Recurrent
• Document location:
  • Ethmoid
  • Frontal
  • Maxillary
  • Pansinusitis
  • Sphenoid
• Note that a diagnosis of sinusitis is coded as chronic sinusitis. If your intended diagnosis is acute sinusitis, you must document acute.

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