K40.31Billable
Unilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene, recurrent
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Billable Code
K40.31 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
View documentation for hernia groin
hernia groin
View TemplatesHernia of the Groin
View documentation for incarcerated inguinal hernia
incarcerated inguinal hernia
View TemplatesIncarcerated Inguinal Hernia
View documentation for left inguinal hernia
left inguinal hernia
View TemplatesInguinal Hernia, Left
View documentation for right groin hernia
right groin hernia
View TemplatesUnilateral Inguinal Hernia
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:
Inclusion Terms
4 items
Inclusion Terms
From K40.3:
- •Inguinal hernia (unilateral) causing obstruction without gangrene
- •Incarcerated inguinal hernia (unilateral) without gangrene
- •Irreducible inguinal hernia (unilateral) without gangrene
- •Strangulated inguinal hernia (unilateral) without gangrene
Includes
7 items
Includes
From K40:
- •bubonocele
- •direct inguinal hernia
- •double inguinal hernia
- •indirect inguinal hernia
- •inguinal hernia NOS
- •oblique inguinal hernia
- •scrotal hernia
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)