K56.50Billable
Intestinal adhesions [bands], unspecified as to partial versus complete obstruction
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Inclusion Terms
1 item
Inclusion Terms
- •Intestinal adhesions with obstruction NOS
Billable Code
K56.50 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 abdominal obstruction
abdominal obstruction
View TemplatesAbdominal Obstruction
View documentation for bowel obstruction
bowel obstruction
View TemplatesBowel Obstruction
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
2 items
Inclusion Terms
From K56.5:
- •Abdominal hernia due to adhesions with obstruction
- •Peritoneal adhesions [bands] with intestinal obstruction (postinfection)
Excludes1
7 items
Excludes1
From K56:
- •congenital stricture or stenosis of intestine (Q41-Q42)
- •cystic fibrosis with meconium ileus (E84.11)
- •ischemic stricture of intestine (K55.1)
- •meconium ileus NOS (P76.0)
- •neonatal intestinal obstructions classifiable to P76.-
- •obstruction of duodenum (K31.5)
- •postprocedural intestinal obstruction (K91.3-)
Excludes2
9 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)