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K59.39
Billable

Other megacolon

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Megacolon NOS

Billable Code

K59.39 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

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.

Inclusion Terms

1 item

From K59.3:

  • Dilatation of colon

Excludes1

7 items

From K59:

  • change in bowel habit NOS (R19.4)
  • intestinal malabsorption (K90.-)
  • psychogenic intestinal disorders (F45.8)

From K59.3:

  • congenital megacolon (aganglionic) (Q43.1)
  • megacolon (due to) (in) Chagas' disease (B57.32)
  • megacolon (due to) (in) Clostridium difficile (A04.7-)
  • megacolon (due to) (in) Hirschsprung's disease (Q43.1)

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 K59:

  • functional disorders of stomach (K31.-)

Code First

1 item

From K59.3:

  • , if applicable (T51-T65) to identify toxic agent
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