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K57.92
Billable

Diverticulitis of intestine, part unspecified, without perforation or abscess without bleeding

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Billable Code

K57.92 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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Diverticular Abscess

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Diverticulitis of intestine, part unspecified, without perforation or abscess

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.

Excludes1

2 items

From K57:

  • congenital diverticulum of intestine (Q43.8)
  • Meckel's diverticulum (Q43.0)

Excludes2

9 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)

From K57:

  • diverticulum of appendix (K38.2)
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