K02.9Billable
Dental caries, unspecified
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Billable Code
K02.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
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doctor of dental medicine
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Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
6 items
Includes
From K02:
- •caries of dentine
- •dental cavities
- •early childhood caries
- •pre-eruptive caries
- •recurrent caries (dentino enamel junction) (enamel) (to the pulp)
- •tooth decay
Excludes2
8 items
Excludes2
From K00-K95:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- •endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- •injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- •neoplasms (C00-D49)
- •symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)