K65.9Billable
Peritonitis, unspecified
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Inclusion Terms
1 item
Inclusion Terms
- •Bacterial peritonitis NOS
Billable Code
K65.9 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 epiploic appendagitis
epiploic appendagitis
View TemplatesEpiploic Appendagitis
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
17 items
Excludes1
From K65:
- •acute appendicitis with generalized peritonitis (K35.2-)
- •aseptic peritonitis (T81.6)
- •benign paroxysmal peritonitis (E85.0)
- •chemical peritonitis (T81.6)
- •gonococcal peritonitis (A54.85)
- •
- •
- •periodic familial peritonitis (E85.0)
- •peritonitis due to talc or other foreign substance (T81.6)
- •peritonitis in chlamydia (A74.81)
- •peritonitis in diphtheria (A36.89)
- •peritonitis in syphilis (late) (A52.74)
- •peritonitis in tuberculosis (A18.31)
- •
- •peritonitis with or following appendicitis (K35.-)
- •puerperal peritonitis (O85)
- •retroperitoneal infections (K68.-)
Excludes2
8 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)