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K42.9
Billable

Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Umbilical hernia NOS

Billable Code

K42.9 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

View documentation for periumbilical hernia
periumbilical hernia
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Periumbilical Hernia

View documentation for umbilical hernia repair
umbilical hernia repair
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Umbilical Hernia Repair

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.

Includes

1 item

From K42:

  • paraumbilical hernia

Excludes1

1 item

From K42:

Excludes2

8 items

From K00-K95:

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • 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)
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