K57.21Billable
Diverticulitis of large intestine with perforation and abscess with bleeding
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Billable Code
K57.21 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 diverticuli
diverticuli
View TemplatesDiverticular Disease of Intestine
View documentation for diverticulitis with perforation
diverticulitis with perforation
View TemplatesDiverticulitis of the Large Intestine with Perforation
View documentation for perforated diverticulitis
perforated diverticulitis
View TemplatesPerforated Diverticulitis
View documentation for perforated viscus
perforated viscus
View TemplatesPerforated Viscus
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:
Excludes1
3 items
Excludes1
From K57.2:
- •diverticulitis of both small and large intestine with perforation and abscess (K57.4-)
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)